Something I have a hard time by-passing is a good R2 unit. I have R2 units in so many different forms, including a standing R2 cake one year for my birthday. So when I cam […]
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Carolina Whistle Stops
The SQL Crazy train continues chugging along this month. The next two whistle stops are back to back in the Carolinas. The first stop is coming up in just a few short hours. I will […]
Coast to Coast with SQL Saturday
Last month I blogged about the SQL Crazy train making a whistle stop in Providence Rhode Island. A couple of weeks prior to that, you may have read this article about the Salt Lake City […]
T-SQL Tuesday #47: SWAG SWAG SWAG
This month we probably have the easiest topic I have ever seen for a TSQL Tuesday blog party. That isn’t a slight, but rather is something of a good thing. This is a very hectic […]
MCM on Life Support
Good news everybody. October 1st is no longer the day that the MCM was prescribed to die. The Microsoft Certified Master is now on life support until December 31st, 2013. Which means that the Jan […]
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 […]
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 […]
Is your LOG backed up?
You have been doing a fantastic job of late. You have all of your databases being backed up on a regular schedule. Now you get an alert that your transaction log just keeps growing. Why […]
Audit Configuration Changes
Do you know the last time a Server Property was changed on your instances of SQL Server? Are you wondering when the setting for max degree of parallelism was changed? Do you know who changed […]