Ground Zero Database Design: Part 2

Last week I wrote Ground Zero Database Design, thinking that was a good enough bare-bones intro (with recommended reading!) that...

SQLRally Pre Con Update

The call for Pre Con speakers for the 2011 PASS SQLRally closed last Friday (Oct. 15) and I want to...

New Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 R2

Late Monday night (October 18, 2010), Microsoft released the latest Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2005 and for SQL Server...

Minutes of the September 2010 PASS Board Meeting Posted

Please take a few minutes to review the September 2010 minutes (login required). We just had our October meeting on...

SQLSaturday #49–The Poster!

Over the past few months I’ve been thinking that we don’t do enough to celebrate the people and the effort...

Boulder SQL Server User’s Group - Common SQL Server Mistakes

The first iteration of my presentation on Common SQL Server Mistakes, based on the various things I’ve seen in the...

SSWUG Fall 2010 Virtual Conference Starts Today!

Conference Time! The SSWUG Fall 2010 Virtual Conference is starting today.  It’ll go on from today through Friday – if might...

SQLSaturday #59 - Speaker Interview Series # 7 - with Hilary Cotter

 SQLSaturday #59 - Speaker Interview Series # 7 - with Hilary Cotter
He specializes in Microsoft Search solutions and high availability technologies like data...

SQLSaturday RoundTable at the PASS Summit

We’ve made great progress with SQLSaturday this year; reaching new cities, a successful handoff to PASS, and a lot of...

Common SQL Server – Not Indexing FKs

This series looks at Common SQL Server mistakes that I see many people making in SQL Server.

Foreign Keys
It’s way too...