The Charles River – SQL in the City Boston

I once rowed in the Head of the Charles Regatta. I had the 3d seat, starboard, in a 4 man...

Some Jargon from the SQL Server World

Not long ago I wrote about how to write well about SQL Server, and one major point was that jargon...

PASS Virtual Chapter Events - September 2012

PASS DBA Fundamentals Virtual Chapter
fundamentals.sqlpass.org / Twitter:  @DBAFundVC

September 4, 2012 - 11:00 a.m. CST
Introduction to SQL Server Service Broker

Speaker:  Adam Belebczuk

In this...

PASS SQL Saturday - September 2012

PASS SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server.  Please note that in...

Colorado SQL - SQL Saturday Events September 2012

Publisher  ...

Cisco VPN Client 5 on Windows 8

NOTE: Always create a backup before doing any type of Windows registry modifications!!!!
With the full public release of Windows 8...

Error: No mapping between account names and security IDs was done

I recently decided to move over to Windows 8 so I can take advantage of Hyper-V and get off a...

Windows Server 2012

I haven’t paid too much attention to this version of windows yet, but I have just been reading up on...

Normalization & Denormalization

Normalization & Denormalization Someone asked me about this basic thing which we generally do not think much, so realize that should...

Reducing Your Storage Footprint Using SQL Storage Compress

I was asked to speak at SQL in the City in New York and Austin Texas.  I have used many...