We are rapidly closing in on the February meeting for S3OLV. You might remember reading about the upcoming meeting here. We are looking to have an excellent meeting this month. We have had a good […]
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Freedom
Not too long ago, I blogged about a Book called Daemon. Freedom is the sequel to Daemon. I enjoyed reading this book. The story continues from Daemon, but in a largely different direction. I like […]
System Base Tables
On January 19th, I published a post about the Dedicated Administrator Connection. I spoke very briefly of the system base tables in that article. Today, I want to dive into these tables a little bit […]
Slammer, Alive…Barely
By now you must have heard of the SQL Slammer worm. It was quite an infectious little nuisance. The harm it caused came largely due to unpatched, unprotected SQL Servers.
S3OLV February 2012
Do you recognize this person? If you are from the Colorado Springs area, you probably do. This is: Troy Ketsdever (twitter) Troy will be presenting to the Las Vegas SQL User […]
S3OLV – Jan 2012 Meeting Recap
Last week (Jan 12, 2012), we held the user group meeting for the SQL Server Society of Las Vegas (a.k.a S3OLV or SSSOLV). Presenting at that meeting was Josh Lewis (Twitter). Josh presented on a […]
Dedicated Administrator Connection
Recently you may have read my article about some hidden functions in SQL Server. In that article you learned that those functions were in some DMOs and that you could get at them through the […]
Blackout
What more can I say. I disagree with the kind of legislation that is being presented via SOPA and PIPA. In support of the community, my site will be dark 18 Jan 2012 between 10:30 […]
A Trio of Functions
I found myself perusing an execution plan the other day. I know, big surprise there. This execution plan showed me some interesting things I had never really paid much attention to in the past. When […]
Meme15 Twitter
Twitter and Your Career With the new blog party on the block, we have Jason Strate (blog | twitter) asking us this month these two questions: Why should average Jane or Joe professional consider using […]