March 2013 LV UG Meeting

Another month and we have another installment (meeting) for the Data Professionals of the Las Vegas area. This month we will be getting back on schedule with the usual meeting time and place.  We had […]

Las Vegas February 2013 UG

I know it is right in the middle of TSQL2SDAY when this post is to go live.  If you don’t know what that is, you should go check out this months edition here.  The topic […]

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 […]

Last Time CheckDB was Run

Back in November 2012, I shared a story about checking the last known good checkdb in the boot page of a database.  You can read that story here. This is an important enough topic that […]

T-SQL Tuesday #38 Recap

This is the wrap up for TSQL Tuesday #38.  We had a good turnout this month with some new faces and with some regulars.  In total, we had 22 entries.  All of the entries this […]

January S3OLV 2013

I hope you are ready for some free SQL learning.  Coming up on Thursday January 10th at 6:30 PM Pacific (GMT – 8 ) we will have a stellar opportunity to do just that – […]

Fast Starts

We are barely under way with the New Year and it is shaping up to be a busier year already.  Not quite as busy as has been published by the folks at Confio – but […]

A Firm Foundation

Last week I sent out an invite for the monthly TSQL Tuesday party. The theme for the party is a take on the words resolve or resolution.  I was hoping the theme would encourage some […]

SSRS Subscriptions Report

As a part of my series leading up to Christmas 2012, I shared a script to Report on SSRS Subscriptions.  It was soon found to have a bug with SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2.  IN […]