Reblog: January 31 to February 6

Photo credit – Travis
Ever go digging through your backyard for dinosaur bones? Maybe not, but it’s worthwhile from time to time...

Speaker of the Month, February 2014

I didn’t get out to many events in January, so I was somewhat limited in the pool of presenters that...

Nadella, Gates: Right Team For Microsoft? – InformationWeek

Does the pairing of Nadella and Gates foretell Microsoft’s return to glory or a new era of dysfunction? Take a...

Friday Followup For February 7, 2014

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

Parent-Child SSIS Architecture

This is the first in a series of technical posts on using parent-child architectures in SQL Server Integration Services.  The...

What Drives Microsoft’s Data Platform Vision?

FEATURED POST BY:   Quentin Clark, Corporate Vice President, The Data Platform Group, Microsoft Corporation

If you follow Microsoft’s data platform work,...

MDX+SSAS #37–Ignore unrelated dimension or not

In Adventure Works cube 2008 or 2012, in the Dimension Usage tab, you will see that many intercepts of measure...

SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for February 2014

I improved the file-level latency query this month and made some other small improvements to a few other queries. Rather...

Murder in Richmond

I am about to set sail on a new venture with my next official whistle stop.  This year has been plenty full of whistle stops and I plan on...

Murder in Richmond

I am about to set sail on a new venture with my next official whistle stop.  This year has been...