The First Event of 2013 – SQL Saturday #183 – Albuquerque

I’ll be delivering the Modern Resume presentation at SQL Saturday #183 in Albuquerque, NM on February 9, 2013. I got...

Reblog: December 7 to December 13

Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post.  The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...

SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) – December 2012 update

SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) has a new update:
VS 2010: December version: 10.3.21208.0, November version 10.3.21101.1, September version: 10.3.20905.0, initial version:...

SQLOS Basics - Chennai User Group Meet - Presentation File Download

Chennai SQL Server User Group (CSSUG) meet is happening tomorrow (15-Dec-2012) in Microsoft Training Centre, Chennai.
You can download presenation and demo scripts here
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs-admin/blogs/livingforsqlserver/CSSUG_SQLOS_Basics_15Dec2012/SQLOS_CSSUG_Meet_15Dec2012.zip
Tomorrow,  I...

Big Data and Hadoop Part 1

Big Data Definition

As per wiki Big Data usually includes data sets with sizes beyond the ability of commonly-used software tools to capture, curate, manage, and process the data within...

On the Second Day…

  Yesterday, I introduced the 12 Days of pre-Christmas.  In that first article, I gave you a gift to help maintain your msdb undercarriage.  Today I want to continue...

On the Second Day…

 
Yesterday, I introduced the 12 Days of pre-Christmas.  In that first article, I gave you a gift to help maintain...

Cross-database Queries by Contained Users

Cross-database Queries by Contained Users
http://www.necromaticmedia.com/2007/11/containment/

I presented to the Pacific Northwest SQL Server User Group / PASS Chapter (PNWSQL) last night on...

Big Data and Hadoop Part 1

Big Data Definition
As per wiki Big Data usually includes data sets with sizes beyond the ability of commonly-used software tools...

Next Gen File System ReFS(Resilient File System) and SQLServer !

“ReFS”, this term was absolutely new to me when I was reading this white paper from Microsoft ‘Storage Windows Server...