SQL Saturday Dallas Update

Just a quick update on the SQL Saturday event we are planning for the Dallas area next year.  Late last...

Issue with SQL Server 2K5 SP3 CU5

In case you are considering to apply SQL Server SP3 CU5 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972511) to your system, I'd like to point out...

Meeting Sept 15th at the Microsoft Technology Center - Auditing Considerations: Native SQL 2008 and Third Party Auditing Technologies.15

Hello all!
We will be having our normal meeting at the Microsoft technology center sponsored by:

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Stonebridge Plaza, Building One...

Recursion with SQL Server 2008 within the Financial World

As most of you, we in the financial world have often been faced with the challenge of extracting data from...

.Net SQLConnectionStringBuilder ApplicationName Property

We have several “Home Grown” applications at my current place of employment.  This provides our development staff with a great...

A Moment of Silence

Today is the anniversary of one of the worst attacks in the US, the September 11th attack on the World...

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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein
from 37 signals blog.

LaRock on Monitoring

Since I just spent a bit more than half of my 24 Hours of PASSpresentation on tuning queries talking about...

Memories Of PanzerBlitz

Back when I was a small tyke, I vividly remember playing an Avalon Hill board game called PanzerBlitz, which was...

Running a Server Side Trace

This is part two of three part series on creating, running, and scheduling Server Side Traces in SQL Server. Part...