This afternoon (well, evening to them) I presented my "What's New in Denali" deck remotely for the Kent, England SQL Server & .NET User Group. The link for the event is here and you...
Today I was in Chicago for SQLSaturday #67 to present my "What's New in SQL Server Denali" deck. You can download the deck and samples below. I mentioned during the talk that THROW is...
This week I have collected five important bugs involving Management Studio, and I hope you'll visit them, provide input and vote on the ones you think are worthwhile. #651176 : SSMS tries to access...
Tip : Identify deprecated SQL Server code with a server side trace
When I go to the Knowledge Base, it is quite uncommon for me to using a web browser from the very machine that I am concerned about. In fact, when I am searching for...
Very early this morning, Microsoft released four updates: one for SQL Server 2005 SP3, one for SQL Server 2005 SP4, one for SQL Server 2008 SP1, and one for SQL Server 2008 SP2. Cumulative...
Recently I was asked by John Sterrett (blog | twitter) to present to his SQL Server user group (WVPASS) in Wheeling, West Virginia. Well, today is the day, and I will be presenting, "What's...
This weekend I discovered a minor issue in one of my virtual environments. I had built out 100 VMs based on a Hyper-V template, but I forgot to activate the original source before creating...
Background Last year, I came to a very tough decision that I would cease publicizing Connect items in an attempt to drive up votes and get important issues fixed. This was almost entirely due...
This week, T-SQL Tuesday is being hosted by Jes Borland (blog | twitter), and the theme is "Aggregate Functions." When people think of aggregates, they tend to think of MAX(), SUM() and COUNT(). And...
