A colleague of mine recently asked me the best way to run queries against SQL Server from PowerShell. The scenario…
As I see it, there are three phases to your involvement in the PASS Summit. Attend the Summit to learn…
In my blog post last March (http://www.sqlpass.org/Community/PASSBlog/tabid/1476/entryid/789/Portfolio-Update-PASS-Programs.aspx) I mentioned that my first PASS Summit was in 2003 in Seattle. I’ve…
Yesterday I received the news that I was the winner of the Tribal Awards in the category of Best Free…
There’s a lot of discussion about the process of bringing new speakers to a level that allows them to be…
We’re anxiously waiting to hear from PASS which sessions were selected for the 2014 Summit in November. It’s a big…
In tracking down poorly performing queries for clients I often encounter the query text in a trace file I’ve captured,…
One of the most important things you can do as a DBA is to keep tabs on the errors reported…
Last summer I set up Change Data Capture for a client to track changes to their application database to apply…
As a DBA, one of the things I struggled with was gathering all my important system information in one place,…