Microsoft Certifications and MVP’s – What are they?

I take it for granted that everyone knows all about Microsoft certifications and Microsoft MVP’s.  But a few years ago,...

Re-blog – July 29-August 4

As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week.  Some posts...

Audit SQL Logins

Written by David Postlethwaite There are several ways that you can audit who has logged in to your SQL Server. The...

PowerPivot – Perspectives

PowerPivot – Perspectives
Many times when developing larger Analysis Services cubes you may find it necessary to use Perspectives to logically split...

Celebrating Mistakes-Part 2

I’ve been thinking about this a lot. It’s easy to say we want to take risks, much harder to set...

Two New TPC-E Submissions

Two new TPC-E OLTP Benchmark Submissions have shown up in the last month or so since I last recapped three...

The Best Part of My New Job

The Best Part of My New Job
Come to the Dark Side, We have Nutter Butters

If you had told me a...

Celebrating Mistakes-Part 1

Most of us learn more from mistakes than successes. We talk about taking risks, but what is the average response...

MSSQLTips.com Kindle Contest

I'm always wary of contests to win free stuff, but the folks running MSSQLTips.com are legitimate (I write there as...

My SQLbits sessions

Since today its official, I'm presenting 2 sessions at the SQLbits conference in Liverpool
(http://www.sqlbits.com) from September 30 –
October 1. Here...