Moron's Guide to SSIS : Episode 1 - Introduction to the Environment

Today Pragmatic Works release it’s first comedic training video featuring Dustin Ryan as “Dustin” and Brian Knight as “Gary” Dustin’s boss. ...

SQL Saturday 14 Pensacola

 I will be speaking this Saturday at the SQL Saturday in Pensacola.  The topic will be SSIS Best Practices and Performance Tuning. ...

Advanced SSIS Interview Questions

I wrote a blog about a year ago that gave some tips on basic interview questions that you may run...

Off to SQLSaturday #14

I leave this afternoon for Pensacola and SQLSaturday #14. My daughter is traveling with me, for a short vacation with...

A Practical Electric Sedan?

We’re getting closer. Coda is planning on selling a 4 door sedan in CA next year for $45k ($10k tax...

The SQLServerCentral Track at SQL Connections

I'm happy to announce that SQLServerCentral is sponsoring a track at this year's SQL Connections conference in Las Vegas, Nov...

Moving to Hyper-V

My primary development machine for the past 3 years was a 32 bit Toshiba Satellite notebook running XP named PROBE-DROID....

Speaking at SQLSaturday #14 in Pensacola on June 6, 2009

I'm driving over tonight to spend a long weekend in Pensacola (6-7 hour drive from Orlando) for their first SQLSaturday,...

SQLServerCentral Article on Backup Monitoring and Reporting

The article, Backup Monitoring and Reporting, demonstrates a SQL Server backup reporting solution I use in my production environment. Some highlights of...

TRY/CATCH - The Great Way to Handle Exceptions in SQL 2005/8

This is based on the original post in Franglais.

The goal of this post is to explain how to handle errors...