Why Read?

I love to read. Like my friend, Paul Randal (blog, @PaulRandal), I read a lot of books every year, usually...

Index Black Ops Part 5 – Page Splits

In my TSQL2sDay index summary post, that I’d be writing a few posts on the information that is contained in...

Presenting at SQLSaturday #48 in Columbia, SC This Weekend

I’m leaving Orlando early Friday morning to drive up to Columbia for SQLSaturday #48 . By the time I changed planes...

The Land of BBQ

I’m off to Kansas City today for SQL Saturday #53 and looking forward to a great speaker’s dinner tonight at...

Stupid Tech Support Tales

One of our desktop support technicians noticed the following error from a 3rd party vendor application in an error log:

"9/22/2010...

Geekbench 2.1.7 Released

If you read my blog or follow me on Twitter, you know that I have a strong interest in database...

Dear Users…Sincerely, Your IT Guys

Dear Users,
We, the tech people, understand that you just want technology to work so you can get your jobs done. ...

When the Bloc Québécois is a Nuisance for Quebeckers’ Interests: The Top 20 Countdown

 The below is a republished version that has been released officially on the Canadian Federal Liberal Party's web site.  Finally...

Cleaning up excess contiguous spaces in strings. A mystery.

/* Have you ever come across the problem where you have to remove spaces from a string that has too many?...

SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Released

Some of my clients and I have been waiting on this for a little while – SQL Server 2008 Service Pack...