Tampa Code Camp Announced

The next Tampa Code Camp will be held October 13 at University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Avenue,Tampa, FL...

Speaking for PASS Professional Development Virtual Chapter

This coming Wednesday I will be speaking for the PASS Professional Development virtual chapter. My talk will be on my...

SQL Server BI & SharePoint eBooks, Guides and Resources

There are many free eBooks & resources available from Microsoft and members of the MVP community.  This is a collection of...

Working With Compliance

Most larger and all publicly held companies will have some sort of compliance team – often a few varieties, ranging from...

How to prevent ‘Select *’ : The elegant way

UPDATE 2012-09-12 For my latest adventures with TSQL Parsers please see this post.
I’ve been doing a lot of work with the...

August 2012 – Monthly SQL Server Checklist

Summer is beginning to wrap up for those of us in the northern hemisphere and were finally to August.  Maybe...

Excluding Schemas in SQL Compare

I saw this question posted the other day and thought it was a great idea.

I haven’t been a big...

Service pack Native Client, SQL XML4 and VSSWriter failed

One of my client accidentally executed a 32 bit service pack on a 64 bit SQL Server, the service Pack...

Forcing network protocol to connect SQL server

Whenever there is a network issue or a SQL server browser issue we might need to connect SQL server in different...

SQLSaturday 159 - KC Can Sure Throw a SQL Saturday!

This past weekend was SQLSaturday159 - Kansas City.  I drove down with my wife and our sons (2 years old and...