Bill Graziano Visits oPASS & JSSUG

Bill Graziano (main man at SQLTeam.com, consultant, and VP of PASS) was in town recently to speak at both the...

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...