I'm back home now, but had a total blast at DevConnections in Las Vegas this week. I saw many friends and colleagues who I hadn't seen for awhile. I was surprised that there were ~4700 attendees at the show, with quite a large exhibiter hall too. It's really become a mini Tech-Ed. From left to right: Richard ...

Peter DeBetta and I are going to have fun putting together a presentation on ''worst practices'', and by doing so we will be illustrating the ''best practices''. Look for us to be onstage together at SQL Connections this Fall at the Mandalay Bay. So, what are some of your ''worst practices'' that you'd like to ...

I was asked this again last week, so it's time to blog! When installing SQL Server 2005, you need to click the Advanced button to get to the screen below so that you can include the sample databases and project code. If you just check the boxes for the various database services, these won't get installed by default.

My apologies for being late on uploading these, but I had to spend an incredible weekend touring Jerusalem and Bethlahem. Then, I jumped on a flight to Dubai, and am currently in a hotel in downtown, preparing for the SQL Server Magazine Roadshow tomorrow. My sample code from my Keynote, Asynchronicity, Security, SMO, and ...

Thanks to one of my favorite attendees, Oren Ellenbogen, who is a CodeSmith guru, for providing a CodeSmith solution to my SQL Server concordance generator that I demonstrated at SQL Week in Israel. A ''concordance generator'' is something I came up with, which scans through all of the columns, in all of the ...

Thank you for attending my talk this morning. Here is a text file with my sample code. Enjoy!

This was a short, 10-minute presentation that I recorded while at Tech-Ed in Orlando. Many of the Regional Directors gave a GrokTalk.