Launching #TAPtips – Valuable Tips from Decades of Practice

Launching #TAPtips Blog Posts While forming Datalere, Carlos and I wanted to continue with our contributions to the Denver, Colorado...

Be Careful of Your Create Stored Procedure Batch

I was rehearsing a demo with someone recently and we had some stored procedure code that looked like this:
CREATE PROCEDURE...

Books of 2016

I set myself a reading goal of 75 books for last year, and managed 73. I’m not overly happy about that, there were months where I barely managed to...

Books of 2016

I set myself a reading goal of 75 books for last year, and managed 73. I’m not overly happy about...

Books of 2016

I set myself a reading goal of 75 books for last year, and managed 73. I’m not overly happy about...

Checking DBCC CHECKDB

I hope you run consistency checks on your databases, if you are not currently doing this you probably will want to....

My Epic Life Quest

I have always maintained a private bucket list. I have not had the courage to actually put it down in...

2016 – That was a Year :-)

Its the time of year for reflection and I have had the most amazing 2016, I am blessed that I love...

Starting with Chocolatey

I ran across Chocolatey years ago when Scott Hanselman wrote about it in his power tool list. At the time,...

Presentations & Blogging of 2016 in Review

For the 4th year in a row, I am keeping data on my professional engagements to help the others –

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