Two Digit Year Cutoff

I couldn't sleep this morning and decided to wake up and catch up on my email when I noticed a video link...

Thanksgiving Bloopers

I'm slow to get this out, but I finally rendered the raw bloopers from November. Enjoy.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

PASS Election Review Committee - We Need Your Input!

The PASS Election Review Committee has geared up and we've started looking at the process of the entire election process...

Relational Types.

As I try to drag my team (sometimes with resistance, sometimes with pleasure) into the world of relational principles, I...

Dashboard and KPI Design–the Definitive Industry Standard

First of all, the title is intended to be
a little tongue-in-cheek – just a little bit.  I’ll explain.  Last week
while I...

Preventing Subscriptions from Blocking Interactive Report Executions

A consulting client recently asked how they could resolve a capacity-planning issue
on their production report server.  They manage a busy...

2010: The Year In Review

“Quitting smoking is easy; I’ve done it dozens of times.” the great American writer Mark Twain once said.

Although I’ve never...

SQL Server Hardware Book

One reason (besides laziness) that I have been fairly light on my blogging lately is that I have been working...

Group Level Page Numbering using Reporting Services 2008 R2

Using SQL Server Reporting Services, we have always had the ability to use the built in fields (the Globals collection)...

SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries (Dec 2010)

I have been quite the slacker (by my usual standards) for blogging over the past few weeks, but my excuse...