I'm A Candidate For The 2014 PASS Nomination Committee

The 2014 PASS election cycle begins today when voting opens for the Nomination Committee (NomCom) and I'm one of eleven...

Attaching All Databases with PowerShell–Attaching Missing Databases

I wrote a PowerShell script recently to actually accomplish a task I that I needed. What’s more, this was the...

Columnstore Memory Grant Issue

In a previous post about non-clustered columnstore indexes, I mentioned the creation of an index is a very memory intensive...

SQL Server 2014 Cluster Installation Steps

Steps for SQL Server 2014 Cluster Installation :-
1) Lunch SQL Server Installation Center

2) Enter Product Key

3) Accept License

4) Check Global...

I’m A Candidate For the PASS 2014 Nominating Committee

I submitted my application for the NomCom on May 21 and after the review process we’re now in “campaign week”....

Announcing SQL Summer Camp

A new way to train in SQL Server.
 
I had an idea a few years back about a training event unlike...

Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #86

It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up.  If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...

PASS 2014 Nomination Committee

I’m officially on the slate and running for the PASS 2014 Nomination Committee!

Why should you vote for Ryan?
I love the PASS...

What is the difference between Money and Decimal(19,4)

One of my co-workers and I were discussing the difference between the data type MONEY and the data type DECIMAL(19,4)....

SQL Saturday 294 Philadelphia, Nostalgic!

Less than a week left and I’m extremely excited about SQL Saturday in Philly on June 7th, 2014 and the...