July 2011 S3OLV Meeting

We have had a bit of a lag between meetings for the User Group of Las Vegas.  In June, a meeting was scheduled but did not happen.  The cause of that was due to being […]

Lessons from Out of the Blue

This past Fourth of July weekend I had the opportunity to do a few different things and thought I would share some experiences.  None of these experiences were job related but the lessons from these experiences could be applied to SQL and databases.  I will explain that a little bit later.

SQL Statistics – another Spin

I was reading a blog by Pinal Dave that was about using catalog views to obtain information about stats for the entire database.  While reading the blog, I was reminded about an interesting tidbit of […]

70-450 Study Guide

In my last post concerning my certification journey I said I may post a study guide.  I have thought it over and a sweetened condensed version of some of the topics covered would prove helpful. […]

MCITP: 3 Down 1 To Go

Despite my desire to do one exam a week in pursuit of the MCITP Certifications for DBA and Developer in SQL 2008, other things came up that have slowed me down considerably.  It was only […]

T-SQL Tuesday #19 – Disasters & Recovery

There are three types of disasters that are seldom expected. Read about the fun of dealing with these different types of disasters.

June S3OLV Update

This is a real quick update.  It has been requested that we go ahead and provide LiveMeeting for tonight as well.  Thus Charley will be presenting in person but the meeting will be available to […]

Meme Monday – Stupid Questions

This month we have an interesting topic for Meme Monday.  This is hosted by Thomas LaRock and the topics revolve in some way around SQL Server.  As Tom brought up, the saying is that “there […]

June 2011 S3OLV Meeting

It’s Grillin’ Time OK, so we won’t be grilling inside the meeting – or even at the meeting.  But it sure sounds good.  There will likely be Pizza and drinks. For any who are interested, […]