I have been appointed as PASS Regional Mentor for the Greater Southeast

I have been appointed as PASS Regional Mentor for the Greater Southeast by PASS (http://www.sqlpass.org). I am truly honored to...

Restore Database In SQL 2012

In the post below I mentioned a store procedure which  can generate the database restore script based on the msdb...

PASS Summit Code of Conduct – my thoughts

The big furor today is over PASS‘s new written Code of Conduct. I’m going to crib unashamedly from Nic Cain’s blog post...

August #Meme15 Round-Up

The August round of #meme15 finished up last week with a good number of people participating.  The aim of the...

JSSUG Speaker Idol 2012 Review

Last Wednesday at Jacksonville SQL Server User Group (JSSUG) we held our annual Speaker Idol event.  Read more about what...

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If you have done a lot of work with SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) you may have seen this message:

We’ve...

My upcoming speaking schedule

The summer goes by and in a few weeks the conference season starts over again. The last weeks were a...

My upcoming speaking schedule

The summer goes by and in a few weeks the conference season starts over again. The
last weeks were a little...

Celebrity DBA–West Coast Time

At the end of July I was fortunate enough to visit the City of Angels, Los Angeles, or simply LA....

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In 12 years of working with SQL it was only last year that I came across the keyword DEFAULT and...