May Question: What is your favorite DBA joke?

Post your responses to the above SQL Aloha Question of the Month in the comments section below (at www.bradmcgehee.com if...

Nominations for the 2010 Exceptional DBA Award are Now Open

SQLServerCentral.com, along with Red Gate Software, are glad to announce that nominations for the 2010 Exceptional DBA Awards are now...

SQL Server Monitoring Checklist

I have worked with a lot of organizations who just have just a small handful of SQL Server instances. In...

Register For 24 Hours of PASS Event

The free 24 Hours of PASS event will be held on May 19-20, and includes 24 different one hour presentations...

Don’t Forget to Register for the Free 24 Hours of PASS

The free 24 Hours of PASS event will held May 19 & 20, and includes 24 different one hour presentations on...

What is a Good Way to Get the SQL Server Log Directory?

Introduction
Today’s post is going to be a quick one to get back in the saddle again. I have been on...

Table Sizes

In SQL Server there are two stored procedures that help one to determine the size of a table.  One is...

Upcoming Presentation for Professional Development Chapter

I’ll be presenting “Building a Comprehensive Professional Development Plan” on May 13th via Livemeeting to members of the PASS Professional...

PASS Summit 2010 Content Survey

The Issue
Being involved in PASS and the SQL Server community via blogging and Twitter, I get to see and hear...

Follow Up: LinkedIn Poll

A couple weeks ago I wrote about testing the LinkedIn polling capability, putting up this poll:

The response rate wasn’t great,...