I'm presenting at 24 Hours of Pass!!

Woohoo!  I have been selected to present my SSIS Tips & Tricks presentation at this year's 24 Hours of Pass.  I am...

Oracle Tips for MSBI Devs #1: Executing an Oracle Stored Proc with No Parameters in SSIS Execute SQL Task

Originally posted: 3-4-2012 Welcome to a new blog series of tips related to Oracle with a focus on helping those...

CPU-Z 1.60 Released

Pretty much right on schedule, Frank Delattre has released CPU-Z 1.60, which has support for some new and upcoming processors...

Resource Governor Configuration

Resource Governor(RG) is a technology which introduced in SQL server 2008 to manage the CPU and Memory resource that a incoming session can...

New upcoming events across Europe

I'm very happy today to announce 4 new upcoming SQL Server workshops across Europe
within the next months:

SQL Server Configuration...

SQL Server – How to troubleshoot query timeouts

Common reasons for query time-outs are :
1)     The application starts using a query not optimal for the index
2)     Hardware changes\...

SSRS or a Custom Web Form – Pros & Cons

In response to a post I made on an unrelated topic, a reader said "I’m not really a fan of...

A Script A Day Finished!

Well that's it, my "A Script A Day" series is finished.  I hope you found the scripts I provided useful, I've used...

Low Power SQL Server Test Lab on Windows Server 8 Hyper-V / ESXi5

Low Power SQL Server Test Lab on Windows Server 8 Hyper-V / ESXi5