Odds and Ends To Think About

Got this in morning email from Khan Academy. Not sure if I agree that we all can learn anything, but...

Friday Followup For August 22, 2014

It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...

Silliness for an Important Cause

I don’t mind saying that amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, scares me. A degenerative disease...

SQLSat Birmingham: SQL Server Permissions and Security Principals

Thanks for attending my session today, SQL Server Permissions and Security Principals at 9:15AM!

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SQLSat Birmingham: SQL Server Admin Best Practices with DMVs

Thanks for attending my session today SQL Server Admin Best Practices with DMVs at 8AM!

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Notes on the August 19, 2014 Pinellas SQL Group Meeting

Busy week, should have blogged about it before the eventDid a remote presentation on securing credit card dataFirst time using...

Reviewing the PASS 2015 Budget

I just spent a few minutes reviewing the 2015 PASS budget, things that I noticed:
Anticipating a change in revenue of...

Stupid me #4 – The login is from an untrusted domain

After quite a while it has finally returned: another Stupid Me™®©! A reminder:
Every time I do something “stupid”, which happens...

Automated Source Control: A Librarian For Your Database Objects, Part 1

One of the biggest headaches in most development groups that do any sort of SQL Server work is that of...

Monitor the Number of Deleted Rows in a Clustered Columnstore Index

In some of my previous posts, I have talked about how to create Columnstore indexes. Now I’d like to discuss...