Later today, Steve Jones (Blog | @way0utwest | SQLPeople Person of the Year) and I will be talking about Red Gate's cool product: SQL Source Control. Registration is required. I hope to see you there!

  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 ...

I am honored to participate in 24 Hours of PASS starting at 8:00 AM 19 May 2010! My presentation is titled Database Development Patterns and is the second session - starting at 9:00 AM EDT 19 May 2010. It's free, but you have to register to attend - register today! :{> Andy

  Introduction I maintain the best way to start a blog post or article is with an image that grabs the reader's attention. So I asked my good friend Frank La Vigne (Blog - @Tableteer) to help me out some with his mad Photoshop skillz. TBDDEOTP While describing G. Andrew Duthie (Blog - @DevHammer) in a Richmond Code Camp keynote, I coined ...

I learned a couple weeks back my proposal for a pre- or post-conference seminar entitled ''From Zero to SSIS'' had been selected as an alternate at the PASS Summit 2009. I was a little disappointed,  but then I looked at the incredible speakers and topics selected for pre- and post-conference seminars here.  These seminars ...

Introduction I built a SQL Server 2008 Maintenance Plan and included a Maintenance Cleanup Task. For those who don't work with this stuff every day, Maintenance Plans are actually SSIS packages. The short version of a long story is: I couldn't execute the Maintenance Plan on the server. I won't go into that (not now, at least); but I noticed a ...

Greg Low mentioned the new licensing model for Database Edition is his post on the topic a few days ago. What does this mean for you? Here's my take: Now that Database Edition is included (free as in beer) with Developer Edition, application developers can take advantage of some of the awesome features built into Database Edition. What are ...

I'll be in Kansas City next week doing some SSIS training. I don't think I've ever been to KC so I'm looking forward to the trip! When I found out I would be in town, I dutifully contacted the Kansas City SQL Server Users Group to see if they were having a meeting. When traveling I like to check out Users Groups to see what other folks are doing ...

Introduction A long time ago in a place not so far away from Farmville, I learned Motorola 6800 machine code. It wasn't easy but with patient instruction from my neighbor, I was soon making things happen on the computer screen and in memory. I was hooked! Fast Forward 3.3 Decades... I'm still hooked! That thrill was and remains my ...

More Better  Last week I read and blogged about Better by Dr. Atul Gawande. In Part III of the book, Dr. Gawande focuses on Ingenuity with three chapters entitled The Score, The Bell Curve, and For Performance. There are lots of good takeaways for software development in these chapters. Full Disclosure  One stood out ...