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 […]

Transaction Log Management

I have had the distinct pleasure of being asked to review a book by RedGate.  The book is by a friend and respected community member Gail Shaw (blog | twitter).  The book is a stairways […]

Join The SQL Crazy Train

One of the best lines I heard in the past few weeks was “That train has sailed.”  Combine that with a crazy schedule and we now have a SQL Crazy train that floats from event […]

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 […]

My Hack…err…Rube Goldberg Machine

My deadline is fast approaching.  It seems these days that editors have no patience.  On top of that there is this ever-shrinking deadline problem and the constantly shrinking lead-time to publication issue. Oh wait, it’s […]

Las Vegas UG September 2013

  Are you ready for some SQL? If you are like me, you are probably almost always ready for some SQL.  Well, we have just what you are hungry for – more SQL. Thursday evening […]

SQLSaturday Salt Lake City #246

Fast approaching (yeah just a couple of days out now), is SQLSaturday 246.  This year t he event is sort of in Salt Lake City, being another 10-15 minutes south on the I-15 corridor. I […]

SQLSat 235 Wrap-Up

Wow, more than two weeks past SQL Saturday in Curacao and I find a partially written wrap up post for Curacao in my queue.  I had fully intended on getting this out much sooner than […]