On Software and OS Lifecycle Management

An Important Rule: 
If you’re trying to convince someone to your viewpoint, insulting them generally doesn’t work. If it does anything,...

Good things should be appreciated–SQL sentry Plan Explorer TIP #95

Although , It is out of box but I would like to share here. I am very choosy in food. When...

Error Creating Remote Distributor When Creating a Local Distributor

Recently, I was working on a Peer-to-peer replication automation project. When I switched from my local test servers to some...

April Blogger Challenge 3 – Filtered Indexes

The April Blogger Challenge is from Ed Leighton-Dick and aimed at new bloggers, but anyone is welcome. I’m trying to...

SQL Server 2014 SP1 released, and revoked

Just a brief note today to point to an article by Time Ford on SQLMag.com announcing that SQL Server 2014 SP1 has...

Azure SQL Database v12 and SQL Magazine

I spend many of my evenings researching and writing. Sometimes it’s writing new books. Sometimes it’s fixing and rewriting old...

Exam Prep 70-463: Master Data Services Models

This post is part of a series on this blog that will help me, and hopefully you, pass exam 70-463: Implementing...

2015 Program Committee

Last year, I was very much honored to be selected to deliver a pre-con with my friend brother Chris Shaw (B|T).   I...

Received 2nd MVP Award for SQL Server - Zum 2. Mal ausgezeichnet mit dem MVP-Award für SQL Server

Adding, altering or removing multiple columns from a table

I was recently asked to do some fairly heavy modifications to a table. It involved adding 6 new columns, removing...