Travel Recap for 2009

Starting Wednesday, December 9, 2009, I am on vacation until Monday, January 4th, 2010. Instead of traveling somewhere else for...

Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008 Pre-reading List

Via Twitter, I stumbled upon a link to this newly updated pdf from Joseph Sack and David Ikeda who are...

LinkedIn Update and LinkedIn Vanity URL’s

Was just doing my more or less weekly update on LinkedIn and saw that – finally – just hit 500 connections. Growth...

A CIO's Voice....

As you know if you follow this blog, Pearl Knows is the creator of the monitoring software SQLCentric, and offers...

Microsoft Student Career Portal

Microsoft Learning has put up a new Microsoft Student Career Portal that gives advice and links to resources on how...

Getting the Most Out of SQL Server Profiler Using Templates

In case you haven’t discovered this for yourself, SQL Server Profiler is one of the most powerful tools that come...

Getting Things Done: The Zone

Cross-Posted from A Goal-Keeping DBA blog:
I'm reading Getting Things Done because of Brent Ozar's excellent blog post, How I Use...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements for December 2009

Next week, I have the honor of presenting two different sessions on SSIS.  These 2 events are the last speaking...

Dismissing Warnings in SSAS 2008

When working with Analysis Services, you will often run into the same warnings over and over as you are developing....

Good Programmer = Lazy & Dumb?

Alternative title for programmers using C-derivatives and Java:

Good Programmer == Lazy & Dumb?
I read this blog post, Why Good Programmers Are...