Vetting the PASS Board of Directors candidates

I've had a pretty heavy involvement in Brent Ozar's interview of Matt Morollo. The reason for my intense activity is he was...

A DBA's Role with Respect to Improving Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Performance

1linerForward: here's a webinar from Microsoft regarding this subject, the following is a summary of what was required to improve CRM performance.  
Microsoft's...

Are you sticking to your goals? Do you know what they are?

I've engaged a little in the discussion on Matt Morollo's interview on Brent Ozar's blog. It made me go back...

Book Review: The Deceived

The Deceived by Brett Battles

I haven’t post on any fiction lately, thought it was time to write about something more...

More SQL Server 2008 Book Involvement

Last night, I received my hard-copy of Pro SQL Server 2008 Mirroring from APress. This book has a lot of...

Off-Hours Work: A Guide For Non-Managers

In my last post I talked about how I think managers should approach off-hours work with their teams. It's a...

Separating Out Indexes

I saw a post recently where someone was asking how to separate out all indexes from the data into a...

SNESSUG October Meeting

The Southern New England SQL Server Users Group’s October meeting was a bit sparsely attended with 7 attendees. The sponsor...

SQL Lunch/Call for Speakers

Patrick Leblanc has started a new project called…SQL Lunch! The concept is to present a 30 minute topic every two...

SQL MVP Profile of the Week - Michael Coles

As we continue to get ready for the NY\NJ SQLSaturday User Group meeting this October 24, 2009, I had the...