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So a developer asked me a question about how he added a column to a table and now the view that referenced the table wasn’t showing the column.  I asked the obvious question: “Did you add the column to the view?” to which he replied “The view is doing a SELECT *”

OK it may not [...]

It’s a rarity for me to blog about something non-SQL Server related but I have to tell you the 2010 Winter Olympic Games were pretty amazing.  Anyone who knows me (or who met me at the Summit last year) knows that I’m a huge hockey fan and I have to give credit where credit is [...]

The more I work with PowerShell the more I love it

So what do you do if you’re in a VM environment and you want/need to reboot your server but you can’t connect via RDP and you can’t connect to the console using the VM Infrastructure Client, and all other attempts to connect just [...]

On January 27th 2010 the Edmonton Chapter of PASS is having it’s next meeting. Details below:
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/503789849
Please be sure to not only click the “Add to my calendar” but also the “Register” button so that we can plan accordingly for food and drinks. 
Date:  Jan 27th 2010
Time: 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Location: Stanley A. Milner library
Map: 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square
Meeting Room: Centennial Room [...]

First off I’d like to say Happy New Year to everyone and extend my congratulations again to all the new MVPs out there… well done and the community is a better place because of people like you.
January is going to be a VERY busy month for me both personally and professionally so I thought I [...]