SSIS Lessons Learned, Or Not, And Mistakes Beginners Make

It’s been a while since I’ve used SSIS for anything of substantial complexity, and a lot longer than that since...

SQLSaturday in Vermont, Idaho, South Dakota, Montana, Alaska, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Wyoming

Did the list of states in the title catch your eye? That’s the list of states where PASS is trying...

Status and Name Please-Question Of The Day

Status and Name Please is my latest Question of the Day at SQLServerCentral. This is a fairly easy question, but...

Status and Name Please

Editorial: Space Hoarders

I wrote Space Hoarders for SQLServerCentral, a discussion of why we – the DBA’s of course – are always blamed for the...

Elected To The 2014 PASS Nominating Committee

The results were posted Friday afternoon, I placed second in the voting with 214 votes from a total of 539...

Prepping For The NomCom

Sunday I spent an hour going over various notes and thinking about what I’ve seen in the past couple PASS...

Space Hoarders

Andy Warren talks about the challenges of storage for DBAs.

Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 17

Didn’t get as much done this week as I’d hoped, but a little luck balanced that out! I do at...

5300 PASS Voters for 2014 Election

I was catching up on reading the minutes of PASS Board meetings and found the following except in paragraph 2...