Presenting at SQL Saturday 119 Chicago!

First thing in the morning Saturday May 19th:

I will be presenting with my colleague from House of Brick David Klee...

Get Free Learning

A couple of different events going on today and tomorrow:
Today (03/20) at 3pm CDT - "Choose Your Own Adventure: Performance Tuning"...

Help I'm not Sysadmin!

I am currently working on some client servers to upgrade multiple SQL 2008 R2 Express instances to 2008 R2 Standard. ...

T-SQL Tuesday #028 – Jack of All Trades, Master of None?

It's T-SQL Tuesday again, and this month Argenis Fernandez (@DBArgenis/Blog) is hosting with the topic of "Jack of All Trades,...

Double-Dash Comments, the Hidden Menace

While writing my last post on cleaning up old maintenance plans, I was reminded of something I heard in a...

Cleaning up Old Maintenance Plans

This is something I trip over every now and then on systems we inherit from our clients, and I thought...

A Little Feature Self-Deprecation

The buzz started yesterday, with the rumblings about Database Mirroring showing up on the "Features Not Supported in a Future...

Database Mirroring Deprecated in SQL 2012

From the newly released SQL 2012 Books Online documentation:

This note shows that as of SQL Server 2012, which will be...

Clearing Job Notifications - HELP!

I have inherited a SQL 2005 server with SQL Agent job notifications in place, and a request to clear the...

Error 14269 on SQL Server 2000

As I noted in my last post, I am currently on a project to review some older servers (SQL 2000...