Wow, more than two weeks past SQL Saturday in Curacao and I find a partially written wrap up post for Curacao in my queue. I had fully intended on getting this out much sooner than […]
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Rare Species, Extinction and the MCM
As of 11:04 PM MST ( -6 UTC ), the Microsoft Certified Master along with the other certifications in the Advanced certification series at Microsoft joined the ranks of the Panda on the Rare and […]
T-SQL Tuesday #45 Follow the Yellow Brick Road
We have the distinct pleasure once again to have a party full of SQL enthusiasts. The best part is that few if any of us are even in the same room or building for this […]
SQLSaturday Curacao 2013
Are you looking for some beach time? I know I am. I also know that I will probably get some of that beach time at an upcoming SQL Saturday. This SQL Saturday event will be […]
T-SQL Tuesday #43 – Hello, Operator?
This month’s TSQL-Tuesday is hosted by Rob Farley (blog | twitter), who became a Microsoft Certified Master for SQL Server 2008 this past December (you know that elitist club that should wear Jedi robes to Summit […]
T-SQLTuesday #42! The Long and Winding Road
The Long and Winding Road It is time for another installment in the monthly blog party for SQL Server professionals known as TSQL Tuesday. This month we have the pleasure of being […]
May 2013 Las Vegas UG
Spring is in the air, I think. With that scent in the air, we have a nice juicy topic coming up this month for any and all that are interested. Chad Crawford will be presenting […]
Lost that Single-User Connection?
You have changed your database to single_user mode to do a task. As you go about your business, you lose track of which connection was the single_user connection. You start closing connections and mistakenly close […]
MCM Road Less Traveled
I began this post back in October of 2012 after learning that I had passed the SQL Server 2008 MCM Knowledge exam. I had set it aside in hopes of polishing it off after my […]
Las Vegas April 2013 UG Meeting
AlwaysOn – Finally, A usable ‘mirror’! In the past, High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HADR) had many limitations. Clustering and Mirroring are great, but the mirror/secondary database is not very usable since it is not […]