TSQL Recipes – 2014 Edition

Announcing…the book At long last the wait is over. After much blood, sweat and more blood and sweat, the next edition of the SQL Server Recipes book is finished. This edition brings several changes and […]

SQL Server and Defaults

What is that default setting? SQL server does a fantastic job of having numerous settings at the server level and at the database level predefined for you. Additionally, the OS has a bunch of settings […]

PASS Summit 2015 – Guess What?

Quick run the other way! PASS Summit will never be the same! Why? Well, becauseĀ for the first time in the history of me, I have been selected to speak at such a prestigious event. Isn’t […]

Database Settings Changes – Red Handed

One of my pet-peeves (and consequently frequent topic of discussion) is finding database settings (or any setting that has changed) without knowing about it. Worse yet is finding that the change has occurred and nobody […]