this isn’t thunderdome

When I received my first MVP award for SQL Server it was fairly abstract to me until I went to...

Vote for me at SQLBits

SQL Bits XII is coming this July to Telford in the UK and voting is underway for sessions. I’ve submitted...

Webcast Follow-Up: Introduction to Clustered Indexes and Heaps

Last month, I presented a session for Pragmatic WorksTraining on the T’s titled Introduction to Clustered Indexes and Heaps.  I’d meant to...

Dedicated Administrator Connection

By David Postlethwaite

At my presentation on SQL Server Management Studio at SQL Saturday in Exeter I promised to write some...

Colorado SQL Events for April 2014

SQL Meetings are training events for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. Please note that...

T-SQL Tuesday #53 – Work Hard, Play Hard, Joke Hard

It is April and April Fools has only just begun.  Well, or so Matt Velic (blog | twitter) would have us believe. Matt decided that this month for TSQL...

T-SQL Tuesday #53 – Work Hard, Play Hard, Joke Hard

It is April and April Fools has only just begun.  Well, or so Matt Velic (blog | twitter) would have us...

T-SQL Tuesday #53–Why So Serious?

It’s an interesting topic this month for T-SQL Tuesday #53. When I read Matt Velic’s invitation, I became intrigued. I...

Currys having apostrophe trouble

Before I start I just want to say that much of this post is mere speculation on my part and...

Question of the Week -08/04/2014

Suppose we need to find out the name of all the months in a given year (Year will be given...