How To Fix OBS Black Screen when recording SQL Server Session Demo’s?

Everyone loves a demo. When I say everyone, I mean I personally love seeing a demo in a session which is why 99% of any sessions I present will...

Delayed Durability in the wild…

Background
We have recently been working on large data migration project for one of our clients and thought I would share...

Why would you never use SSIS Fast Load…?

We all know that if you want SQL Server to push data into a table then you want to batch the...

Windows 10 Upgrade on Surface Pro 3 – Sending email issue FIXED

I very rarely blogabout anything other than SQL Server but felt that with a lot of the SQL Community using...

SQLNorthEast Usergroup 2015 dates announced (preliminary)

Mike and I have been extremely busy over the Xmas period and we’ve finally sorted dates for our 2015 instalment of...

Merge csv files – quick PowerShell snippet

During a bit of work I’ve been doing this evening for SQLRelay, I used something I have in my arsenal of...

2013 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney...

Output SQL Server data from multiple tables to Tab Delimited text files using Powershell

I had a request this morning for something I though was actually very simple:
Client: “Can you extract all data for...

SQL Server NorthEast – New Usergroup!!

SQLBits in Nottingham was where it all began. A short conversation on whether there were any plans for a SQL...

Making sure your Triggers fire when they should

As some of you may be aware, triggers are not my favourite thing in the world but like most things,...