April PASSMN Meeting (April 19)

Every career, whether on purpose or accident, is a journey from one job or project to another.  To achieve great...

#SqlBits and SSIS custom components

If you are in anyway interested in SQL Server and live in the UK,  you cant of failed to of...

Cloud computing – not without risk?

Interesting quote from Sharepoint Best Practices Conference :” 17% of IT Pros think benefits of cloud computing outweigh the risks”!!

That’s not...

SQLBits Attendance Breaks Previous Records

How many people can you identify in the above photo from the closing party at SQLBits? Can you find Ola...

Powershell Day 11

Day 11 COM and WMI Powershell is a very powerful language, with Powershell we can achieve same result with the...

Slides & Samples for my SQLbits session

As announced in both of my sessions, you can download the slides & samples for
my SQLbits sessions here:

Message
in a Bottle: Service...

Hostettler the Viking Needs a New Ship and Your Help

Hostettler the Viking Needs a New Ship…And Your Help.
My good friend Justin Hostettler Davies (Blog@DBExpertise) pinged me a mail in...

A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 11

For Day 11, I want to talk about the new processor numbering system for Xeon processors that Intel introduced on...

Limit Results Based on Aggregated Threshold

Problem
A post was recently added to one of the forums that I monitor so that I can help users in...

A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 10

Wow, we are 1/3 of the way through this series! Today’s post is “Classic Intel Xeon Processor Numbering Explained”. By...