T-SQL Tuesday #17 – APPLY Knowledge

It’s that time of the month again… again.  Time for T-SQL Tuesday!  This month’s event is being hosted by Matt...

April PASSMN Meeting (April 19)

Every career, whether on purpose or accident, is a journey from one job or project to another.  To achieve great...

I Got Registered!

I’m going to SQL Rally!  Are you going to SQL Rally?  Have you heard of SQL Rally?

What’s SQL Rally?
I’m glad...

#Meme Monday

Use extended events; they work – and make you appear magical.
– “Write a SQL blog post in 11 words or less”...

MCM Exam – Take 2

Yesterday, I went in for my re-take of the MCM written exam.  If you recall, I failed the exam last...

#SQLSat67… it’s mystery is only exceeded by it’s power.

We’ve seen a few summaries come through by now, so I’m going to throw mine into the mix.  To recap...

Index Black Ops Series

Previously, in a TSQL2sDay index summary post, I started a series on the DMV sys.dm_db_index_operational_stats.  The series investigates how the...

TechFuse Follow-Up

Last week I spoke at the TechFuse event in Minnesota – out at Mystic Lake Casino.  As I mentioned in the...

What Are Your Indexing Strategies?

A couple weeks ago, I got some pretty great new.  The book proposal that I had submitted to Apress was...

Twin City Code Camp 10 Is Coming

Twin Cities Code Camp will be hitting the University of Minnesota Campus again next month.  This is a biannual event...