SSC Editorial: Bad Meetings or Meeting Badly

Bad Meetings or Meeting Badly is the editorial of the day today. Looking at it today, I wish I had...

Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #89

It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up.  If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...

Reading, Writing, and Riskmetic-Question of the Day

Reading, Writing, and Riskmetic is another Question of the Day, this one about how to allow developers to understand performance...

SQL Server 2012 || Contained Database

Contained databases are the new feature in SQL Server 2012 and are defined on BOL (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff929071.aspx) as below :
A contained...

sp_SrvPermissions & sp_DBPermissions V5.0

These are a couple of stored procedures I wrote to help me with security research. Each of the stored procedures...

Using PowerShell to Build your Azure VM Environment

In a previous post I wrote about Using a Hyper-V VHD in an Azure VM. Today I’d like to show...

Introduction to Latches in SQL Server

(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan – you get a weekly email packed with all the...

Plagiarism: A Community Destroyed

Personal Thoughts

Just to be clear, I don't expect everyone to have my same thoughts. I personally fully support SQLServerCentral and...

ExpressProfiler: Yet another "when and why" story.

Core of ExpressProfiler  was born about 8 years ago when I worked for a company whose mission was the migration...

Microsoft Azure Data Services

Azure Data Services
Microsoft’s Azure data services provides you with a method to enhance your enterprise architecture and business intelligence options. ...