TechEd: Session Preference Survey

TechEd has listed some potential sessions for TechEd North America 2011 here:  http://northamerica.msteched.com/sessionpreference?fbid=I1Ydc71JM4a.  They want to know which sessions you...

31 Days of SSIS – 10 Things About Expressions (16/31)

31 Days of SSIS
Sixteen days in and we are past the half way point for the 31 Days of SSIS...

Check that what you expected is actually what you got - DB's and SQLCMD

I feel that it is wise move for a script to actually check itself that the database connection that is...

SSMSDeploy will be available, with source, for donation

After much um-ing and ah-ing I have decided to release my addin, with source code, under the GNU GPL.

I've also...

31 Days of SSIS – Every Which Way Outputs (15/31)

31 Days of SSIS
Saturday morning and you can watch your favorite cartoon, or jump into some fun with SSIS.  Today...

SQL Saturday #62

I presented a one hour session at SQL Saturday #62 in Tampa on SQL Server PowerShell Extensions (SQLPSX): “In this...

SSMSDeploy Demo #2 - new features

I've made some changes to the addin, adding some new features:

Comments: You can now add a comment to your request....

PASSMN January Meeting Announced

The details are up and we have the meeting planned for January for the Minnesota SQL Server User Group (PASSMN). ...

SQLServerCentral.com Track at SQL Server Connections 2011 in Orlando in March

SQLServerCentral.com will be offering a track at SQL Server Connections, to be held March 27-31, 2011, at the JW Marriott...

Multi-tenant Architecture

When you design a database, or at least when I do, I think it’s important to build a database schema...