#SqlBits and SSIS custom components

If you are in anyway interested in SQL Server and live in the UK,  you cant of failed to of...

Do you know SqlServer ? Do you want an iPad ?

If you’ve answered yes to both of those questions , Jacob Sebastian has some more question for you.
Every day in March...

“Apparently, you signed a software services agreement without fully understanding it.”

I am not a lawyer. Let me say that again, I am not a lawyer.

Todays Dilbert has prompted me...

Denali Paging–Key seek lookups

In my previous post “Denali Paging – is it win.win ?” I demonstrated the use of using the Paging functionality within Denali. ...

Denali Paging–Is it win/win ?

I'm not one for automatically poo-pooing new ideas, new practices and new technology.  Rather I like to take a measured...

The best things in life are free

Greg Gonzalez (blog | twitter) of SqlSentry, last night released a very cool new and free product.  Plan explorer is a...

An impossible case

In a previous blog entry (Inconsistent NullIf behaviour), Jeff Moden and Dan Halliday(twitter) both made a very similar observation.
When executing...

Kent SqlServer UserGroup

I am now in the process of arranging the 2nd meeting of the kent sqlserver user group.  This will be...

Kent SQL Server User Group

Well , that was an experience. 
It was my first time arranging anything like that and it seemed to me that...

Inconsistent NullIF Behaviour ?

NullIf can be a very handy function sometimes.  For those who have not used it, if the result of the...