Logistics For All Day Meetings

Quick thoughts about the work required to make all day meetings run smoothly:
Suitable space with enough seating (and reasonable chairs!)Turn...

Summer SQL Server & Database Events In and Around NY

Summer SQL Server & Database Events In and Around NY-

Happy May everyone! 
Hope those April showers will bring us May flowers! ...

Stupid T-SQL Tricks – Part 1: Logarithms

Not just for math geeks, logarithms and their inverse functions (the exponentials) can have useful and often unexpected capabilities in...

DAX #2 – Installing AdventureWorks DW Tabular Model SQL Server 2012

OK, first thing first. We all know the famous Adventure Works multidimensional sample project. To learn the tubular mode/DAX, we...

Speaking at Connections

I just got my acceptance to the DevConnections, SQLConnections in September for two sessions:
Continuous Integration for DatabasesMaintaining High Performance When...

SQL #53 – Keyboard shortcut Alt + F1 works now in SSMS 2012

Keyboard shortcut Alt + F1 works now
SSMS has a rich set of keyboard shortcuts that works by default. But in SSMS...

And I wonder, where that column is?

I wouldn't have decided to write this post if I didn't see my boss at one of my previous jobs...

The Cardinality Estimator in SQL Server 2014 – Going Forward and Backward

I saw a talk from Joe Sack (b | t) on the cardinality estimator (CE) in SQL Server 2014 and found...

Decks & Demos Live

Hello Dear Reader!  Just a quick update.  I've been traveling a lot and I'm behind in posting some Decks & Demos....

Building the SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan–Part 3

Not to short change fund raising, but the toughest goal to meet for this year is registration/attendance if we’re going...