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 […]

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 – […]

On the Fifth Day…

Today we will have a quick change of pace.  This will be less about maintenance and more about internals. Today’s topic is one of particular interest to me as well.  The topic is a small […]

Let’s Talk About Joins

T-SQL Tuesday #37 This month please join us in the TSQL blog party that happens on the second tuesday of the month.  It is hosted this month by Sebastian Meine (@sqlity). Sebastien has a month long blog […]

Differential Restore Fail

We have all heard that backup is not complete until you test it by restoring it.  We also know that part of a DR plan involves the testing of those backups through restores. I recently […]

Summit 2012

In case you have been living under a rock (I know it’s not under my rock), here is your notice that Summit 2012 is just a few days away at this point. I will soon […]

SQLSat153 Recap

You may not know that this past Saturday ( October 20, 2012) was SQLSaturday 153 in Salt Lake City.  If you knew about it, awesome.  If you attended – even better.  You probably don’t know […]

Lions and Tigers and Bears…

Last Thursday I found myself on a journey of sorts.  There weren’t any lions or tigers or bears, but there were plenty of “Oh My”‘s. It all began on a dark and gloomy night.  Well, […]

Do you Dream?

You ever have those nights consumed by all things SQL? I do.  It happens more than I might like sometimes.  Usually it happens when there is a work problem that I am trying to solve. […]

High Energy Plankton – T-SQL Tuesday #35

So, what I’d like to know is, what is your most horrifying discovery from your work with SQL Server?