Creating Your Own Certificates

Did you know that you don’t need to go to Digicert or Thawte, or any other company to get a...

Spruced up query_io_reader.rb

I built a small ruby program a while back to help with two things:
 

Quickly identify what tables have the highest IO in a particular query
Learn a new language (Ruby)

 
The...

Spruced up query_io_reader.rb

 I built a small ruby program a while back to help with two things:

1. Quickly identify what tables have the highest IO in a particular
...

Spruced up query_io_reader.rb

I built a small ruby program a while back to help with two things:
 
Quickly identify what tables have the highest...

PowerPivot and Market Research

This past Tuesday, February 14, I was invited to discuss how technology can be used to help analyze data for...

Automate CPU-Z Capture to Check for Throttled Processors

Several professionals have posted about checking whether or not your processors are running at full speed by using CPU-Z. Some recommendations are to check your servers every couple of...

Automate CPU-Z Capture to Check for Throttled Processors

Severalprofessionalshaveposted about checking whether or not your processors are running at full speed by using CPU-Z. Some recommendations are to...

Blogging: Controlling SPAM in Orchard CMS with OpenCaptcha

When I started blogging last year, my first major decision was either to host my own site somewhere using a...

Execute Multiple 2008/2005 SSIS Packages with a T-SQL

If you want to execute a set of SSIS packages in SQL Server 2008 or 2005, you can do this...

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...