OK so this will be another first for me…. I’ve done plenty of remote presentations (via LiveMeeting) for PASS Chapters around the world but this will be the first time I’ve actually flown to another PASS Chapter (OKPASS) and presented live in person! Something that I’ve always envied about speakers in the US is how [...]
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EDMPASS – I’m Speaking on SQL 2012
On March 29th 2012 the Edmonton Chapter of PASS is having it’s next meeting. Details below: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3046360747 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: March 29th 2012 Time: 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Location: [...]
What Is My Restore Doing?
I love that I can still learn cool new stuff with SQL Server even after 15 years I was trying to troubleshoot a problem and got to the point where I was questioning everything I knew about backups/restores because I just couldn’t explain what was going on and why a restore was taking so long [...]
SEQUENCE… explain why and win a prize
In SQL Server 2012 there is a new feature that should be very familiar to Oracle folks called SEQUENCE. (my wife LOVES this game) “Creates a sequence object and specifies its properties. A sequence is a user-defined schema bound object that generates a sequence of numeric values according to the specification with which the sequence [...]
