Yearly Archive: 2010

SQL Sentry Plan Explorer : Version 1.1!

Last week, Microsoft offered up an early Christmas present: SQL Server 2005 SP4.  This week, it's SQL Sentry's turn to play Santa Claus: several new features and fixes have been packaged up into SQL...

Slides : Philly SSUG, 2010-12-08

Attached are the slides and samples from my presentation to the Philadelphia SQL Server User Group on December 8 (Denali_PSSUG_20101208.zip). Please let me know if you have any problems. File Attachment: Denali_PSSUG_20101208.zip

[OT] : An open blog post to bit.ly

I am not sure when it happened, but at some point, bit.ly marked all URLs to connect.microsoft.com as dangerous.  So for example, I created this shortened link http://bit.ly/fKKQPT which just goes to http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://connect.microsoft.com/sql/.  When...

What I'm Thankful For

It's the day before American Thanksgiving, and Jason Strate (blog | twitter) has asked all of us to tell the SQL community what we're thankful for.  While I seem to recall doing this before,...

Reflections on the 2010 PASS Summit

It hasn't been 24 hours since I left behind a slew of new and old friends in Seattle, and I already feel – as someone else put it – that I've left summer camp...

SQL Server v.Next (Denali) : Using SEQUENCE

SQL Server 2011 introduces a feature that Oracle professionals will certainly recognize: SEQUENCE. SEQUENCE allows you to define a central place where SQL Server will maintain a counter of values for you. The last-used...

Blogging from the PASS keynote : 2010-11-11

Rick Heiges comes on stage and talks about the way the Board of Directors works. He sent off Lynda Rab, a director since 2007.  He introduces the new Directors-at-Large: Douglas McDowell, Andy Warren, and...

Blogging from the PASS Keynote : 2010-11-09

The keynote starts off with a tine Turner impersonator (or maybe it really was Tina?):   Rushabh Mehta (donning the Tina wig) delivers the first segment of the keynote, telling the SQL Server community...

You Can Help Too : SQL Geeks for Good

Kalen Delaney has called out to the altruist in each of us to help out a former student's mission trip to San Ramon, Nicaragua: Did You Know : SQL Geeks for Good I think...

Blogging from the SQL Connections keynote

Quentin Clark is on stage right now talking about high-level SQL Server stuff.  I think I can take this time to explain how Connections is different from PASS (at least according to my first...

What will I be doing at PASS?

I felt horrible last year when I missed the MVP Deep Dives book signing at PASS.  I took part instead in a focus group that ran a little late, and still regret it.  So...