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...

64 Bit Virtual PC Substitute - OpenSource to the Rescue

Hey there gang. I, like many of you, am very excited about the new betas for the 2010 product stack...

Code Camp - Tampa, FL.

I recently attended Code Camp in Tampa and I want to thank everyone who made a SQL guy feel so...

Verizon Wireless and Data Integration FAIL

I recently was working with a client and as sometimes happens, I could not get on their network. Not a...

List of 50 Interesting Web Sites from Time Magazine

Ran across the Time Top 50 web site list and thought I’d share. I’m fond of lists, especially about web...

Fundamentals of Storage Systems – RAID, An Introduction

In previous articles, we have covered the system bus, host bus adapters, and disk drives. Now we will move up...

PCI Encryption

It surprises me how often I see people posting questions about what type of encryption to implement for credit card...

Traveling and Airtran

I am a pretty frequent traveler, as you would imagine. Running a consulting company, and being on it's principals assets...