Microsoft Certified Master program – Is This The Answer to Certification Woes?

In the past few years, many people - myself included - have expressed a desire to see the quality of the Microsoft...

Grouping Sets

I have given a talk about new data types and T-SQL features to three local groups.  I am presenting it...

Database Adminstration Scalability

database administration scalabilityI am working on a project that is very successful in terms of its market
share, i.e. product users...

Pumpkin Tossing

One more holiday post. Hope you all enjoyed Thanksgiving and are now enjoying either a quiet and well deserved day...

Does regulation make data any safer?

Working with healthcare organizations, I am constantly aware of the restrictions my staff and I must abide by according to HIPAA constraints. ...

Happy Thanksgiving

I'm cheerfully taking the day off today (and tomorrow too!), and I'm writing this a week in advance as I...

Workaround Primary Key Violations in SSIS

Before you get much further, please do not use this for every case where you have issues with duplicate rows....

Surface Demo

Second try. The video didn’t embed in the previous post. Nor this one. Here's the link
Microsoft Surface Demo

 
 
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Surface Possibilities

This is interesting. I’m not sold on Surface, though I did play with one last week in Seattle.

Spend Money to Make Money

One of those old sayings that has a grain or two of truth to it. Stocks, real estate, education even,...