I Got Registered!

I’m going to SQL Rally!  Are you going to SQL Rally?  Have you heard of SQL Rally?

What’s SQL Rally?
I’m glad...

SnapManager Epic Fail – oh dear!

An ex colleague and good friend of mine has recently been having trouble with Snapmanager for SQL, anyone had similar...

Powershell Day 7

Day 7 – Security With great power comes great responsibility.—Stan Lee, The Amazing Spiderman So far We have discussed simple general...

On Leadership - Lead by Example

This is the second part of a leadership series I started with On Leadership - Lead from the Front. To recap...

Getting More Hardware Information from SQL Server Denali DMV Queries

As I recently discussed, I often hear from database professionals who are not allowed to access their database servers directly....

Posting Code? Trust, But Verify

Here's a tip for bloggers (or anyone else) who use third party tools to convert T-SQL code into a publishing ...

SQL University: Index Usage

Greetings. Welcome once more to the Miskatonic University branch of SQL University. Does anyone know where to buy some camping...

A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 6

For Day 6 of this series, I am going to talk about a few useful tools you can use to...

Should a DBA be involved in the physical set up of a Database server? Part 2

Part 1 of this blog talked about the bad experience we had with a badly configured SQL Server. The second...

SQL Saturday #63–Dallas

I have been trying to get to Dallas for a SQL Saturday for nearly a year, when the first event...