Clustered Indexes

I work almost exclusively with third party applications. I don't get to do a lot of tuning except for reports...

I Don't Have a Black Eye

Though it kind of looks like that. Here's the first video podcast.

Halo 3

Actually it's probably the 20th, but it's close...

Monitoring and Alerting

I responded in an interesting thread this morning where someone was looking for advice on what to monitor on their...

Points or Posts

It's an interesting question that we had come up, and honestly I'm not completely sure what I want. I'll describe...

I Am Not In Charge

That is for sure.

We had a development meeting today with my publishing team (meaning I'm on the team, not leading...

DTS vs Linked Server

We are trying to move to version 2 of our accounting data warehouse (more likely called a datamart), but it...

Development at High Speed

As with any project, despite being fairly pleased with the final product, there were bugs. In fact, quite a few...

Flawed URL Validation and Not Eating Your Own Dog Food

MS includes a bunch of reasonably nice validation controls in VS 2005 and one of them includes the ability to...

Writing in my sleep

When I first got into IT full time 10 years ago, I noticed that my mind was constantly solving programming...

Building a Local User Group

I've had a couple people ask me about ideas for growing (as opposed to starting) a SQL user group. While...