DBASchool – Will You Be Attending? I’ll be teaching the 3-day classes that covers security, performance, best practices and all sorts of things you’ll want to know about SQL Server. Get a look at the site for specific areas covered, and make sure you get your registration in – time is short, and seating is extremely limited (only a few […]

Register Today – (Rates go up in days) See YOU at the Virtual Conference 20 different speakers are pulling together their excellent content, approaches and ideas and presenting it to you! SQL Server tips, best practices, tools, tuning and much more. Business Intelligence tips, approaches and specific how-to information, SharePoint information on setting up and administering SharePoint systems – all […]

In Just Days: See YOU at the Virtual Conference 20 different speakers are pulling together their excellent content, approaches and ideas and presenting it to you! SQL Server tips, best practices, tools, tuning and much more. Business Intelligence tips, approaches and specific how-to information, SharePoint information on setting up and administering SharePoint systems – all of this and a ton […]

See YOU at the Virtual Conference 20 different speakers are pulling together their excellent content, approaches and ideas and presenting it to you! SQL Server tips, best practices, tools, tuning and much more. Business Intelligence tips, approaches and specific how-to information, SharePoint information on setting up and administering SharePoint systems – all of this and a ton of different, entirely […]

Time is Running for DBA School I’ll be teaching a 3-day class on SQL Server – from security to best practices to performance management and much more. 6 different segments over 3 days, complete with discussions about how best to apply these things specifically to your environment. I hope you’ll join us – click here for more information about the […]

Important: Moving Projects to Production? When you move projects to production, you need to be absolutely certain that you have the right pieces deployed, the right changes completed. You need to be able to check data, objects and synchronize it all, making sure the changes and updates are reflected in the production environment. Idera’s SQL Comparison Toolset will take care […]

Managing Database Change – Community Responds A few days ago I shared some of my experience with Database Change Control. Many of you chose to respond with excellent comments. Following is a response from Thom providing a nice bulleted list of the problems he faces. There aren’t really any solutions here, but he sure helps break down the nature of […]

Things that Make You Say ‘Icky’ I once won second place in a contest; but, never wanted to tell anyone about it. That was because it was a contest for the worst SQL code. Second place was so bad it was worth $100. I wonder what the $500 first place code looked like. “What was bad enough to win $100”, […]

DBASchool – Limited Seats Remain With only 15 total seats, we’re now down to only a few remaining for the April class. This is an in-person class that I’ll be teaching that focuses on the practical, immediately usable items you need to know when working with SQL Server. From security the planning to performance and best practices, we’ll be showing […]

Featured Script CheckErrorLog The script shows SQL Server’s error log without messages about differential and log backup. It is usfull if you want to chec… (read more) Database Design Feedback – a Different Perspective David wrote in with a different take and suggestion set on the database design questions. Agree? Disagree? Have different experiences/comments? Drop me a note here. "1) […]