How often do you get a chance to learn a subject from the leading expert on that subject? Well, outside of attending the PASS Summit, how many times? Not many. But today you can change that. Dr. Ralph Kimball (yes, that one) is giving a free webinar today at 2PM EDT. You can register here: … Read more
This Saturday I will be speaking at SQL Saturday #59 in New York City. I only have one session, at 9AM(!) and I need to be done and out of the room before 10AM because that is the time for the next session to start and I need to make certain the next speaker has … Read more
That’s right, Dan Jones needs our help. Without our help, he is helpless. And after all the abuse that myself and many, many, many other SQL MVPs have given Dan and his team over the years I felt the least I could do was to give him some help. Wait a minute…actually, the least I … Read more
I came across an interesting situation today that I thought I would pass along. A person contacted me asking about a specific error message: Could not allocate space for object ‘whatever’ in database ‘dbname’ because the ‘PRIMARY’ filegroup is full I asked them to verify that there was space available on the disk and they … Read more
Well, I *wish* they were lying to me, it would make it easier for me to yell at someone other than myself. OK, let’s back up a bit. I had this *crazy* idea that I could build a policy to help me identify indexes that were not being used. Seems like a good idea, right? … Read more
Then SQL Saturday #53 (Kansas City) would be ranked quite highly. In fact, they would be number one for all the SQL Saturday’s I have attended to date. Everything about the event was done as well as anyone else and in most cases they were far ahead of others. Let’s recap the event starting from … Read more
