SQL University – Teach Your Children Well

“If you had a daughter, would you really encourage her to get into IT?” … “Yes, if she loved it.”

- My...

SQLSaturday in Hawaii, Portugal, and New Zealand

Just a quick post today for those you who haven’t visited www.sqlsaturday.com lately, we’ve got a lot of events coming...

SQL Server Connectivity Issues with Named Instances

This came up on Twitter last night and if you're not very strong on networking, this can be really confusing....

SQL Server Videos on Channel 9 From Microsoft

Here is a collection of 13 short (less than 10 minutes each) videos about improvements in SQL Server Denali, and...

Las Vegas SQL Server User’s Group Presentation on March 10

I will be giving a virtual presentation via LiveMeeting on March 10, 2011. The S3OLV User Group meeting starts at...

Database Maintenance

I often see a request for some scripts to help with database maintenance.  Sometimes those questions come in the form of recommendation requests for maintenance plans.  As many already...

Database Maintenance

I often see a request for some scripts to help with database maintenance.  Sometimes those questions come in the form...

T-SQL Tuesday #016 – Aggregation

It’s that time of month again, time for Adam Machanic’s (Twitter | Blog) T-SQL Tuesday blog party. This month the party...

Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta v3.0 Keynote

I had the main room keynote at the recent Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta v3.0 in Denver. Jeff Certain & Ben Hoelting...

Say Hi to the Dimension Merge SCD Component

Last week was a great week all around.  It started with Canada's first SQL Saturday in Vancouver - packed with over 300 attendees watching five tracks of local speakers...