The Real Purpose for Kindle

It finally dawned on me why people would bother getting a separate book-reading device like Kindle - and why it might...

SQL Server Storage Internals Part 4 - How to read a Heap page

I like to share 4 updates before moving on to this section:

1. I 've updated my profile to know more about...

Pragmatic Works: The Transition

So if you know me via Twitter or my blog you

probably know that as of about a month or two...

Can You Dig It? – StmtUseDb Element

She can dig it!
D Sharon PruittThe last post in the plan cache series discussed the children for the Statements element. ...

Get Prepared for the January Hiring Season

Get Prepared for the January Hiring Season

As the year winds down, in what was undoubtedly a tough economic year for...

The 9th Day of SQL: Things Aren't as Simple as They Seem

The 12 days of SQL
Brent Ozar (blog | twitter) had an idea: a group of people should blog about writing which...

Fashionably Late, but She's Here!

I'm pleased to announce the latest addition to the Kelley family, a beautiful baby girl born at 11:56 PM last...

Easy CDC in 5 hours (less for you!) using automatic code generation.

Updates:

Update #3:

Another reformat, thanks to andreas for giving me the heads up. The pre tags aren't behaving across browsers so...

SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update 5 Released

Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update 5 (CU5), which is Build 1753.  I count 40 separate...

MCM Live Blog – Week December 20

Watching videos?! Su-ure!
Time for the second week of blogging about the things that I’m doing to study for the MCM...