This past Tuesday afternoon I flew to Tucson to take part in the SSWUG vConference. I was away for about 33 hours in total. And enough happened in those 33 hours to make it feel like it was 33 days.
Such is the life of a SQLRockstar, I guess. The afternoon flight got me to Tucson [...]
PASS it on!
Do you have friends? Yes? Great. Now, do these friends intend to register for PASS in the next two weeks? Possibly? Well then, did you know that you can refer a friend, they will get $200 off their registration, and you will get entered to win a Dell Mini 10v Netbook? No? Well, it is [...]
Live! From Tucson!
File this blog post with the “what-were-they-thinking” department, but the guys at SSWUG are having me present my sessions live during the upcoming SSWUG Virtual Conference. Which is tomorrow. In fact, by the time you are reading this I will be winging my way West.
So, what will I be talking about? I have three sessions [...]
Winter Formal Wear
Last year, while preparing to take a cruise, I thought about purchasing my own tuxedo because, you know, I wear one every twenty years or so. Once that fact was pointed out to me I decided to skip that purchase.
But if I knew that this was an option, I would have bought two. One to wear, [...]
New Tip Over at MSSQLTips
Ever have a customer request that you take a backup of a database, a restore using that backup, and then tell you that it is the wrong data?
Every now and then it happens, so I decided to put together some t-sql to display details on what was done. The script essentially details when the restored was [...]
SQL University Hoops Practice
OK everyone, bring it in for a minute.
We had a great scrimmage last week against MS Access Community College. The Jets played tough, and we knew they would, and they showed us just how far we have to go this year. At this time of the season we are building our conditioning while we work [...]