Shipping

I've got a conference to attend in a few weeks, and needed to get some things out the door. Every...

SQLSaturday #21 Shirt Snafu!

Thought I’d share a funny story. Way back before SQLSaturday #1 my friend Shawn recommended a local shirt/embroidery vendor, I...

Table Variable and Temp Table

Today I come across the great blog by Wayne Sheffield on Sqlservercentral.com about temp table and table variable so I...

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...