Afterthoughts: SharePoint Saturday Tampa 2011

This past Saturday June 11th, 2011 I had the opportunity to co-present at SharePoint Saturday Tampa thanks to a special invitation...

Non use of persisted data

Working at a client site, that in itself is good to say, I ran into a set of circumstances that...

What is the best value for Fill Factor in SQL Server?

Introduction
When an index is created or rebuilt, the fill-factor value determines the percentage of space on each leaf-level page to...

Database Documentation with a Data Dictionary Part 2

A continuation of the data dictionary discussion with information about how the documentation is done.
Today I’m going to continue discussing...

Moving On To New Challenges

After nearly five and half years, I left NewsGator Technologies for a new position as a Database Architect at Avalara,...

Don't touch that Maintenance Plan Job

Good ol Maintenance plans. With 2005 and beyond we received the glorious SSIS backed Maintenance plans. I love SSIS so...

SQLcruise review

The most amazing journey that I have done in the past years was definitely SQLcruise
(see http://www.sqlcruise.com) – a SQL Server
event organized...

Database Owner - Error Message

Sometimes, a simple task that as a DBA you do day in and day out,
can throw wierd errors.

You...

Tampa SharePoint Saturday 2011

I presented a 75 minute session at Tampa SharePoint Saturday on PowerShell Basics.
The presentation and demo scripts can be found...

I am back

I am back again!!!. It has been ages since I posted.An important event in my life kept me away from...