Presenting at SQLSaturday #107 in Houston in April 2012

I was just looking at the schedule for Houston, an amazing 10 tracks for this event on April 21, 2012....

Remote DAC connections

TweetG’day,
I wrote a post recently about setting the DAC port for an SQL instance.
I now do this as a matter...

Select : Lock or No Lock?

Here is a post I happen to find today: why select command is not blocked by update command?

http://blog.csdn.net/zjcxc/article/details/4383113
First, I...

Spring SQL Server Connections / DevConnections

I returned late last night from the Spring DevConnections event, delivering three sessions in the SQL Server Connections conference. I...

Re-blog – March 23 – March 29

Welcome to the Friday Re-Blog summary post.  The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may...

BIDS Helper 1.6 for SQL Server 2012 released

BIDS helper is Visual Studio add-in with features that extend and enhance the functionality of the SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server...

Stress Thoughts-Part 4

Recently I suffered through a frustrating and contentious meeting, and that was stressful. I needed a walk, a few minutes...

SQL Server Upgrade error: It is not possible to change the SQL Server features to be upgraded in this release. Validation errors. There are no features selected for upgrade.

On a recent project I was asked to “upgrade” a licensed SQL Server 2008R2 Standard Edition to SQL Server 2008R2 Enterprise Edition....

Liveblog for #SQLBits X Day 1 Keynote

Welcome to the show! I’ll be liveblogging today’s keynote here at SQLBits X in London.
There’s no need to refresh your...

SQL Saturday #130 Jacksonville Schedule Posted

SQL Saturday Jacksonville is just under a month away (April 28) and I’m happy to announce the we recently released...