Schema as Folder

I'm catching up on my reading today and ran across an article from Kathi Kellenberger called Understanding the Difference between...

Partitioning Part 2 Posted on SSC

I'm a couple days late updating the blog, the article went up on Mon.

Views, Temp Tables, Data Types - Aha!

I spent last week onsite with a client teaching performance tuning and it was really a good week. Great company...

The Contest

I hate contests. I mean it's nice to get people involved and I start out with the best of intentions...

My Book is Out!

How to Cheat at Securing SQL Server 2005

I recently had the opportunity to contribute a couple of chapters to this...

What's In a PodCast - Part 1

Well, lots of mistakes. Here's a good example of one: Friday Oct 5 mistake.

I decided to go the budget route...

Midlands PASS October Meeting

Taya Blanchard to speak on A
Practical Guide to Making Sense of Your SQL Server Application
Performance
Midlands PASS Chapter - October...

Estimates - Part 1

I saw a very interesting post about estimating software from Steve McConnell, of Code Complete fame. He compared his estimate...

Paperwork Day

Doing payments for articles, expenses, and a few articles. This is definitely a paperwork day. As much as I like...

Clustered Indexes

I work almost exclusively with third party applications. I don't get to do a lot of tuning except for reports...