Certifications – and a survey.

G’day,
There’s a lot of mixed opinions around about certifications.
Are they worth while, do they mean anything, do employers value them...

I Won't Be at SQL Rally

I am excited about the SQL Rally event that's coming up next week. However, I won't be there. I've been...

A row has no row number

It seems that every month I have someone asking the question about ordering or row numbers for a query. Let’s...

My PASS Summit Submissions

Following Andy Leonard's (blog | twitter) footsteps, here are my PASS Summit submissions. I decided to go a little different this...

My Partitioning And Compression Quest! (Continued)

Thank you, David C, for your comment!  Please see below to the answers to
your questions.
The table structure is:
CREATE TABLE...

Outlook Productivity Tricks

I have a love/hate relationship with Outlook. It's the required email client at work and because it interfaces with so...

Policy-Based Management and Local Password Policy

This post is based on an interesting question/situation that was posted over at ASKSSC.com today. The user asked how to...

Designing Reports with Custom MDX Queries – part 2

…continued from part 1:

Building a Report

For the remainder of this article, I will demonstrate query and report design techniques by...

Designing Reports with Custom MDX Queries – part 3

Start at part 1
…continued from part 2:

Handling Parameters
When an MDX query is created using the graphic query designer, parameters can...

PASS 2011 Summit Abstract Submissions

Today is the last day to submit session abstracts for the PASS 2011 Summit.  I was lucky enough to speak...