Grant’s Fly-by-night Leadership Course – The Plan

Get a better nameDefine my personal goals for the courseI won’t be sharing these with you. I may share them...

SSC Editorial: Would You Pay to Wear Jeans at Work?

Would You Pay to Wear Jeans at Work turned out to be popular piece when posted a couple weeks back. The...

Database Stuck in Single-User Mode Due to Botched Restore

Working in a development environment, I botched up a restore. After this restore attempt to overwrite my database with the...

When Emotional Intelligence Trumps Math

I have been in Corporate IT long enough to know that when a bad decision is made, you move out...

Creative Schools by Sir Ken Robinson

Education. The key topics for everyone.
In his incredibly famous TED Talk “Do Schools Kill Creativity“, which might be some of...

Present at SQL Saturday #386 – Achievement Unlocked!

SQL Saturday #386 (Albany, NY) – My first SQL Saturday Session

So that picture to the right is me out front of...

SQL Server Audit: Getting Started

SQL Server has the ability to monitor both server and database level events via the SQL Server Audit feature.  Audited...

What’s the Size of that Index?

When you need to figure out how indexes are contributing to the overall size of a table within a database, this script will help you!
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Culture Differences: US v UK

This is a bit of an off topic post from the technical stuff, but there’s a bit of a tie-in,...