A Better Braindump (#mcm #mcmstudy)

I’m studying my butt off for the soon-to-be-deprecated Microsoft Certified Master cert’s lab – and the three unfinished prerequisite certs I’ve...

Presentation Slides for Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture

Thanks to everyone who attended my session “Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture” for the PASS DBA Fundamentals Virtual Chapter.  The abstract is...

Azure Capabilities Expand

But then, the capabilities in Azure are always expanding. Here’s the new stuff that was just released in a blog...

SQL Server events in the UK September 2013

Sorry things are a little later this month…Summer (like the MCM program) may be coming to an end, but we...

How to become a better, well-rounded SQL Server DBA

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People are sometimes...

Why Blog?

The main reason I started blogging was a community thing. I leeched from the community to get me to where...

Is Microsoft's Certification Program Value Microsoft's Fault?

I'd be interested if anyone says, "No," to that question. Gail Shaw raised a few points in this post about...

It's not you; it's us

Mirrored from http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/101894/

By now I expect this news is no longer new: the MCM, MSA, and renamed versions of those...

Replicated Stored Procedure Execution

One feature that many of my clients are unaware of is that the batched execution of a stored procedure can be...

An Exit Becomes the Next Entrance

If you live life in the manner that I do, life is all about change and self-improvement. To me, life...