SSMS Tips and Tricks – ALTernative Highlighting

This isn’t exactly the best thing since bread (or even sliced bread for that matter), but I figured I’d share...

SQLSaturday #62–Tampa Recap

I had the privilege of attending and speaking at SQLSaturday #62 – Tampa the weekend of January 15th and this is...

28-days in February - What to do - Read about Waits & Queues

Happy Monday!  I'm sure many of you may have already caught on, that Waits & Queues is the way to go...

SQL University: Architecting SQL Server Security, the Big Picture

Welcome to this semester's security week at SQL University. In previous semesters we've covered the technical aspects of SQL Server...

RTFM365, Weeks 8-9

I’m not gonna lie to you, Marge…I haven’t exactly been keeping up with the RTFM365. And when I have read,...

How to get the SQL server critical errors via mail using native T-SQL Script

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T-SQL Tuesday #015: Automation:
 

I am very much interested to participate in the T-SQL Tuesday event party. I have seen the...

How to setup the Database mail in SQL server 2005

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In this article I am going to show the database mail setup...

Five DMV Queries That Will Make You a Superhero in 2011!

Way back in January, 2008, I wrote a blog post called  “Five DMV Queries That Will Make You A Superhero!”...

January OPASS Meeting Recap

On January 20th OPASS was pleased to have had Kevin Kline (Blog|Twitter) from our sponsor, Quest, present 10 Things Every Developer should know.  This was the first regular OPASS...

Setting the Standard with Personal Appearance

Cross-posted from the Goal Keeping DBA blog:
Personal appearance matters. We all know this. Yet a lot of times we don’t...