SQL Tribal Knowledge

Calling all unpublished* SQL Server folk!
I’m now accepting abstracts for a new project we’re putting together – a community-written book of...

SQL Server Release Services Blog and TechDays 2011- Places Worth Watching (Oh, & In Case You Missed it, SQL 2008 SP3 Was Already Released :)

Yes, SQL Server 2008 SP3 is out ...

TechDays 2011 SQL Server and Data Platform Track

Presenting on SQL Internals, Recovery Models, & Backups! OH MY Today

 Today I’m presenting “SQL Internals, Recovery Model’s, and Backups. OH MY!”, for Pragmatic Works.  I did this presentation once before...

Fame and Social Media

Reading this post about Alton Brown from Good Eats triggered me to think on the topic. It looks like initially...

10 More Days Until Inspiration! - SQLInspireNYC 2011

Can't believe we're ONLY 10 days out from what's shaping up to be quite an extraordinary awesome event!  We've been...

November Question: What is your favorite, and not so favorite hardware to run SQL Server on?

Selecting which hardware to run SQL Server on is often discussed among DBAs. So, for this month’s question, “What is...

Quick and Dirty Index Info

From time to time, somebody needs to find some information about the indexes in the database.  As DBA’s, there are a few tools at your disposal to look up...

Quick and Dirty Index Info

From time to time, somebody needs to find some information about the indexes in the database.  As DBA’s, there are...

BI Pyramid (read categories of users in a BI solution)

Purpose of any business intelligence solution is to provide users information and enable them to make intelligent decisions that benefit their...

Fatal Error Emails This Morning…

So every morning I check my email on my phone.  Normally, I don’t see any error emails from SQL Server...