I am honored to present at SQL Saturday #46 in Raleigh 18 Sep 2010! I get to deliver two talks: Building Your First SSIS Package (Beginner) Database Design for Developers (Intermediate) If you read this blog and will be attending SQL Saturday #46, introduce yourself!  :{> Andy

  Introduction Andy Waren (Blog | @sqlAndy), Jack Corbett (Blog | @unclebiguns), and Kendall Van Dyke (Blog | @SQLDBA) have been busy. They're working on SQLRally - a regional PASS event scheduled for May 2011 in Orlando. Andy does a good job explaining the thinking behind the event in his 31 Aug 2010 post: Positioning SQLRally in the PASS ...

Introduction I was talking to my team this morning and we were wondering about some design decisions. One of the things that came out of the discussion was: Database professionals think differently. Differently? How? A little story: Before I was a database person I did web development. That's a little misleading because I wrote very little ...

I am honored to be selected to present at the 2008 PASS Summit! I'm presenting two sessions: Test-Driven Development For Database Professionals and SSIS Scripting. I've been working on the presentations recently and realize there will be a few minutes left in the SSIS Scripting talk unless I talk slow. (Some people say I talk slow enough ...

Buck Woody, Microsoft SQL Server Program Manager, recently posted a list of enhancements in the works for SQL Server 2008 RTM in the SQL Server MVP newsgroup. The usual suspects were included in the list: Policy-Based Management (formerly DMF), Resource Governor, Multi-Server Query, PowerShell, and IntelliSense - but there are also some ...

This re-post from my Applied Team System blog (which was a repost from my old SQL Server Central blog) was inspired by James Luetkehoelter's Agile Development and the ''DBA'' post a few days back. I'll have more to say about database developers, agile methodologies, and the need for a DBA in posts to ...