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PASS Summit 2014 – Call for Speakers
That’s right ladies and gentlemen the PASS Summit 2014 Summit Call for Speakers is officially open for business!!! Last year was my first year presenting at a Summit and I can’t wait to submit and...
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SQL Server 2014 RTM – April 1st (and that’s no joke)
Christmas in April I like it. “SQL Server 2014, Microsoft’s cloud first data platform, released to manufacturing today Today, Quentin Clark, corporate vice president of the Data Platform Group,...
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Waiting For A Pot To Boil… Restore Database Progress
Ever kicked off a restore and didn’t set the STATS parameter? Ever had a separate application handle a restore and not give you any feedback at all on how far along a restore is? Well if your answer...
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List All Statistics For a Column – Update
Msg 5074, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 The statistics ‘StatName’ is dependent on column ‘ColumnName’. Msg 4922, Level 16, State 9, Line 1 ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN ColumnName failed because one or more...
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PASS Summit 2014 – I’m Speaking!!!
Good Morning!! With all the huzzah of PASS announcing the speakers and topics recently I thought I would wait a bit before doing the standard “I’m Speaking” blog post As always it’s an honor to be...
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Microsoft…. Y U NO FIX??
I would like…. if I may… it take you on a strange journey…. Consider this: A SQL Server database with ALLOW_SNAPSHOT_ISOLATION set to true A stored procedure that creates a #temp table in tempdb and...
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Do You Even Blog Bro? (Stats, Execution Plans, Indexes, and crazyness)
Have you ever worked with a piece of software for like 15-20 years and ended up doing something with that product that you haven’t or can’t remember doing ever before? This happened to me quite...
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Hey #SQLFamily Where Do You Go?
OK so this video came out like 7 years ago which is pretty well how long it’s been since I’ve blogged. I miss blogging and the #SQLCommunity #SQLFamily #SQLHelp #SQLPASS…. basically all the hashtags...
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Just Keep Googling, Just Keep Googling…. SQL Agent Job Scheduling (Past and...
So I needed a script where I could provide a start and end date that could go into the past and into the future to determine all the job schedule executions that should have or will happen between the...
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And the Emmy Award Goes To……
Yup…. Something I didn’t know was even on my bucket list just got crossed off (that’s how bucket lists work right? lol). I won an Emmy Award! (OK so it wasn’t just me that won an Emmy but the company...
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