Upcoming Presentation for Professional Development Chapter

I’ll be presenting “Building a Comprehensive Professional Development Plan” on May 13th via Livemeeting to members of the PASS Professional...

PASS Summit 2010 Content Survey

The Issue
Being involved in PASS and the SQL Server community via blogging and Twitter, I get to see and hear...

Follow Up: LinkedIn Poll

A couple weeks ago I wrote about testing the LinkedIn polling capability, putting up this poll:

The response rate wasn’t great,...

Recap of April 2010 DMV a Day Series

Well, I managed to finish up my series that featured a DMV query every day during the month of April....

When Did SQL Server Restart?

I saw Joe Webb’s post, and then Gethryn Ellis’ post as well on when SQL Server last restarted. It’s something...

With Great Advice Comes Great Responsibility

I know that you have seen it yourself too. That forum or blog post that contains “advice” that is daft,...

SQLSaturday #39 NYC Presentations available online....

SQLSaturday #39 NYC Presentations available online....
If you were at SQLSaturday in NYC and want to see it again, or, you...

SQL Server 2008(R2) and Win Server 2008 R2 Core Edition

The WinServer 2008 Core Edition was the server that you cannot install the SQL Server 2008. The Win Server 2008...

SSIS : Data Flow paths

I had a very interesting bug that had me running around for over a week.  Turns out the bug was...

TempDB Internals

TempDB Internals: TempDB is very important DB in sql server, generally sql server automatically takes care of the storage management...