Vetting the PASS Board of Directors candidates

I've had a pretty heavy involvement in Brent Ozar's interview of Matt Morollo. The reason for my intense activity is he was...

SQLSaturday #21 Shirt Snafu!

Thought I’d share a funny story. Way back before SQLSaturday #1 my friend Shawn recommended a local shirt/embroidery vendor, I...

Free E-Book on XSD SQL Server Schema Collections

Whether you like it or not, as a SQL Server DBA or Developer, you will eventually have to learn about...

Dev Days

I heard about the Stackoverflow Dev Days earlier this year and thought it was an interesting idea. We had talked...

Backing Up Your Data is Obvious, Or Isn’t It?

Often, when I give presentations on DBA best practices, I make the obvious point that databases need to be regularly...

Book Review: The Deceived

The Deceived by Brett Battles

I haven’t post on any fiction lately, thought it was time to write about something more...

SQLSaturday #21 Is Tomorrow (Oct 17)

I’m writing this in advance because I’ll be busy with all the last minute preparations, but I’m looking forward to...

The PASS Board of Directors Election

There has been some great discussion about the upcoming PASS Board of Directors election over on Brent Ozar’s blog. If...

More SQL Server 2008 Book Involvement

Last night, I received my hard-copy of Pro SQL Server 2008 Mirroring from APress. This book has a lot of...

A DBA's Role with Respect to Improving Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Performance

1linerForward: here's a webinar from Microsoft regarding this subject, the following is a summary of what was required to improve CRM performance.  
Microsoft's...