Yesterday I had the opportunity to give a presentation on SQL Azure to the newly formed Hartford SQL Server Users Group. I wanted the talk to be as interactive as possible. I brought along the usual bribes giveaways that speakers use to solicit some interaction from the audience (three copies of my book, DBA Survivor, … Read more
Tomorrow I will be presenting at the first ever Hartford SQL Server Users Group. The title of the talk is Cloud Computing with SQL Azure, but only because I couldn’t pull together my first choice which was “Dora the Cloud Explorer”. Sorry, but I ran out of time on that because I’ve been a little … Read more
I am happy to write this semi-official announcement regarding the upcoming 24 Hours of PASS event to be held on May 19th and 20th. This is the second event of this type that PASS has put together and the first one that I have had the privilege to help pull together. I know that I … Read more
Looks like I had an excerpt from my book published over at CTOEdge. The excerpt includes my “shards of broken glass comment” with regards to merge replication. The exact context is as follows: “I would rather eat shards of broken glass than implement merge replication, but that’s just me. Some people make a great living … Read more
The email just arrived and I have been awarded the MVP status for a second consecutive year. Unlike last year, I did not believe this email to be a scam, or some cruel April Fool’s Day joke. The past twelve months has been wonderful for me as a database professional, and a big part of … Read more
Today I had the need to find tables in a database that did not have a clustered index defined. Why would I have such a need? That’s a great question. Anyway, I set about with a few basic questions for myself such as “Self, how many tables are there?” So I did what I normally … Read more
