PASS Update #66 (All Good Things)

Last week I emailed the Board of Directors my resignation effective December 31st of this year, ending my current term...

ALTER SCHEMA

Use this select statement to create a list of ALTER SCHEMA statements for all stored procedures in a SQL Server...

SSIS 2012: Project Reference

One of the less advertised enhancements of SSIS in SQL Server 2012 is the Project Reference type available when using...

GiveCamp Tampa 2011

This past weekend I participated at GiveCamp Tampa 2011 (http://www.givecamptampabay.org/) as part as the Worldwide GiveCamp (http://www.givecamp.org) weekend sponsored by...

Deploying SSIS Packages with BIxPress

Same functionality but obvious differences
If you’ve worked with SSIS for any amount of time, you may quickly come to find...

Gaining SQL Server SysAdmin Access

I’ve seen this come a few times at work and I’m sure most you have experienced something similar.
Someone or an...

Giving back–Colorado GiveCamp has started (#CoGiveCamp)

The Colorado GiveCamp is underway with 40 volunteers and 5 charities.  Gabe Villa ( blog | twitter ), Kevin Krueger ( blog | twitter ), Jason...

SSIS – Can’t Enable/Disable within Data Flow Tab

This is my biggest gripe with SSIS: I have a data flow task, and within that I’m pulling data from...

Fun Pix

Various photo uploads from the past year.

Filed under: Blog Tagged: Humor, pictures, syndicated

Why is -fill in the feature- Enterprise-Only?

Steve Jones (Blog/@Way0utWest) recently wrote a great blog post proposing that Microsoft should go from having edition-only features (most of...