The SQLServerCentral Track at SQL Connections

I'm happy to announce that SQLServerCentral is sponsoring a track at this year's SQL Connections conference in Las Vegas, Nov...

Moving to Hyper-V

My primary development machine for the past 3 years was a 32 bit Toshiba Satellite notebook running XP named PROBE-DROID....

Speaking at SQLSaturday #14 in Pensacola on June 6, 2009

I'm driving over tonight to spend a long weekend in Pensacola (6-7 hour drive from Orlando) for their first SQLSaturday,...

SQLServerCentral Article on Backup Monitoring and Reporting

The article, Backup Monitoring and Reporting, demonstrates a SQL Server backup reporting solution I use in my production environment. Some highlights of...

TRY/CATCH - The Great Way to Handle Exceptions in SQL 2005/8

This is based on the original post in Franglais.

The goal of this post is to explain how to handle errors...

Scripting Our Daily (Professional) Lives

I talk a lot about scripting tasks on our servers to automate our regular processes, but in this case I'm...

Seatguru - Getting a Good Seat on the Plane

Ran across this a while back and just getting to it, Seatguru is a site that lets you figure out...

I Learned a New Word

Do you know what a Geoid is?
I’ve been working my way through Beginning Spatial with SQL Server 2008, actually “through”...

Balancing Priorities

This one isn't a technical post, but it's entirely appropriate to those of us in the IT field. Today was a...

Other Desktops

The USB not in Hyper-V thing is annoying. It actually made me stop and consider my alternatives for a desktop....