BI Battle Royale–Adam beats up a Hippie

Weekday Lunch RAW!

Welcome to the Smack-down ladies and gentleman. I couldn?t believe it when Brian walked into my office the...

Check the Default Database Setting for your Admin Accounts

Last weekend, as I was waiting for the start of the performance of the Cleveland Orchestra at its summer outdoor...

Presenting at Curacao SQL UG

On Thursday, Sept 1, 2011 at 7:15pm EST, I’ll be presenting via LiveMeeting to the Curacao SQL Server User Group....

Bitwise and Derived Table revisited

Today I am going to revisit two posts from the past couple of weeks.  I want to revisit them just to make some minor updates and clarifications.  This is...

Bitwise and Derived Table revisited

Today I am going to revisit two posts from the past couple of weeks.  I want to revisit them just...

Convert EBCDIC to ASCII in SSIS

    Converting EBCDIC to ASCII in SSIS 2008 can seem like a daunting task. There is a lot of manual work...

Sharon Dooley’s Lightening Talk and the WIT Luncheon

At the end of last week I received an email from my friend and colleague Sharon Dooley telling me her...

SQL Server, EarthQuakes and the End…Of DBAs?

SQL Server, EarthQuakes and the End…Of DBAs?
What does the advent and integration of VMs, SSDs, and the Cloud mean for...

Book Status #1: Indexing for Performance

As some of you may know, I am writing a book on indexing.  So far I’ve written and submitted four...

Mobile Commerce and SQL Performance Tuning

I was reading through Gartners Top Predictions and one prediction captured my attention:
 “By 2014, over 3 billion of the world's...