Great News! SSMS Tools Pack 1.9 is Coming Out!

Mladen Prajdic (Blog|Twitter) recently announced that the newest version of SSMS Tools Pack is coming out and I am excited.
Why...

A Lesson from My Air Force Days

Yup, you guessed it, another post about the nominations for the PASS Board of Directors. If you're tired of reading...

Hunting down those expensive SPs

A query to find out which Stored Procedures are taking the longest to run ( in this example – the Top 10).
I’m sure there are...

Undocumented Stored Procedures

Just a quick list of undocumented SPs, many of which are deprecated.
Note, use caution using some of these ! But others...

Neat script to monitor activity

Scouring the web this week, I stumbled across SQL Server MVP Adam Mechanics and his script :-
Who is Active?
Its basically a...

It’s the Process

Unless you’ve spent the last two days hiding under a rock, you’ve heard the uproar around this week’s development in...

Thoughts On The 2010 PASS BoD Elections Candidate List

Yesterday PASS published the list of candidates on the ballot for the 2010 Board of Directors election. Much to my...

Making Presentations With My iPad

I recently gave a couple of talks at devLINK 2010 at the David Lipscomb University campus in Nashville.

One of the...

Unique/Non-Unique Clustered Indexes

In the last blog post I have talked about unique/non-unique clustered indexes on a heap
table. A table without a clustered...

Kent SQL Server User Group

Well , that was an experience. 
It was my first time arranging anything like that and it seemed to me that...