Time to upgrade your SQL Server 2005 instance
Last edited on 17 November 2016. As you know, SQL Server 2005 is now over ten years old. Microsoft has helpfully provided a list of ten reasons… Read More »Time to upgrade your SQL Server 2005 instance
The SQL Server Performance Starter Kit
I received some good feedback on my talk this Wednesday for the Calgary PASS Chapter. This has led me to consider transposing the content from… Read More »The SQL Server Performance Starter Kit
Are You Sure?
I make a lot of assumptions in my day-to-day life, as well as in my job as an IT consultant. To mitigate the inherent arrogance… Read More »Are You Sure?
I’m speaking tomorrow
The local SQL PASS chapter in Calgary is hosting yours truly as the speaker for this month. I only have an hour, which I will… Read More »I’m speaking tomorrow
Speaking at Calgary SQL PASS User Group on 19 August 2015
As the title says, I’ll be speaking at the Calgary SQL PASS User Group on 19 August 2015. My topic is SQL Server Performance Tuning… Read More »Speaking at Calgary SQL PASS User Group on 19 August 2015
How I prepared for my first ever SQLSaturday session
I presented for fifty minutes on 27 June 2015, for my first ever SQLSaturday talk. The amount of time I put into that presentation is… Read More »How I prepared for my first ever SQLSaturday session
Announcing Azure Blob Storage Sync and Restore
Yesterday at SQLSaturday #407 in Vancouver, I announced availability of a free tool to synchronise and restore your SQL Server backups using Azure Blob Storage.… Read More »Announcing Azure Blob Storage Sync and Restore
Pre-Announcement Announcement
On Saturday, 27 June 2015, I will be presenting at SQLSaturday #407 in Vancouver BC. The session is titled “Restoring a SQL Server Database from… Read More »Pre-Announcement Announcement
SQLSaturday #407 in Vancouver
I have been selected to speak at SQLSaturday #407 in Vancouver, on 27 June 2015. My topic is about restoring SQL Server backups from Azure… Read More »SQLSaturday #407 in Vancouver
Database Corruption Challenge
Steve Stedman has been running a contest over on his site, the Database Corruption Challenge, which I discovered last week quite by chance through Twitter.… Read More »Database Corruption Challenge
Loyalty can be bought
This piece was originally written some years ago, and never published. It is a report and analysis of the largest project I had worked on as a developer / DBA up to that point in my career. I have published it here for any of you who are interested.Read More »Loyalty can be bought
Total Recall
This is the final entry in my #SQLNewBlogger challenge. You can read the previous entries here: Part 1: The Intersection of Art and Science Part… Read More »Total Recall
What motivates you?
In this, the third part of my series on the intersection of art and science, I hit that crossroad. I can cross over into the… Read More »What motivates you?
The Art of Improvisation
This is the second post in my four part series for the #SQLNewBlogger Challenge. You can read the first part here. On Saturday, 28 March… Read More »The Art of Improvisation
The Intersection of Art and Science
This is the first post in a series of four, where Ed Leighton-Dick, via Brent Ozar, is proposing that we SQL Server folks participate in… Read More »The Intersection of Art and Science