Help I'm not Sysadmin!

I am currently working on some client servers to upgrade multiple SQL 2008 R2 Express instances to 2008 R2 Standard. ...

I’m Not a Bozo!

Something fun for Friday, this was a gift from the client I work with to lighten things up and do...

March #Meme15 – Facebook

It’s the early morning of the 16th, and time to write my #meme15 post.  Remember, these are due on or...

Re-blog – March 9 – March 15

Welcome to the Friday Re-Blog summary post.  The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may...

SQL Roundup – 03/16-2012

Howdy! I was flying last week, and for the first time i sat facing a flight attendant. You don’t actually...

SQL Server 2012: New Certification Info

As a follow-up to my posts SQL Server “Denali”: New Certifications and SQL Server 2012: New Certifications, there are now final details coming...

SQL Skills IE3 #sqlskills

I attended my first SQL Skills event in December 2011.  Due to a big project at work I was able...

Why I don’t like maintenance plans

If you create a maintenance plan (SQL 9.0.3042) to backup databases and select All databases as below;

Then at some point...

#Meme15: On Facebook

This will be my first Meme15 (here’s Jason Strate’s original Meme15 post), and today we’re talking Facebook. The question is:
How...

Agent Jobs Using SSIS

This is a short script to help the DBA with documentation purposes.  This would come in handy especially in those...