Featured Blogger: Simon Sabin

Simon is a prolific blogger, at rough look averaging 10-15 posts per month, and almost all of them are SQL,...

What's Your Build

This would probably be a good editorial, but I thought I'd drop it out here as a short note.
You ought...

Article of the Week – Kevin Kline “Social Media Scene”

This weeks article is written by Kevin Kline, which is titled “Getting Up-to-Speed on the SQL Server Social Medial Scene”. ...

Skipping Items in a Foreach Loop

Recently, my friend Jack Corbett asked a question on Twitter:

In a nutshell, the SSIS foreach loop will enumerate a given...

Networking Sins

I ran across this article about networking sins a while back and have had it on my list to share....

First Meeting of the Charleston PASS Chapter

The first meeting of the Charleston PASS Chapter will take place Thursday night, September 17, starting at 6 PM. The first topic...

Networking While On Vacation

There's been a lot of attention given to professional networking (e.g. Andy Warren's blog posts) recently and if you recall...

More Free Training

Quest Connect 2009, taking place in October 21 for 24 hours, looks like it’s going to have 64 different sessions, live...

No Join Predicate

You could be looking at an execution plan on a query and see this message: Warning, No Join Predicate. With...

Multiple Execution Paths

It’s not uncommon to find stored procedures that have multiple IF statements controlling the flow of execution within the procedure....