2011 Dec 14th 2011 – SWFSSUGS – South West Florida SQL User Group Dec 28th 2011 – MADPASS – The Madison SQL Server Users Group 2012 Mar 22nd – Curacao SQL Server User Group Mar 28th – Evansville SQL Server User Group Mar 29th – EDMPASS / EDMUG User Groups May 26th – OKPASS Okanagan [...]
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Pumped, Primed, Ready to Go! #SQLPASS
After a 1 year hiatus I’ll be back at the PASS Summit this year. Last year I was in Punta Cana during the Summit for my sister in law’s wedding. This year I thought I had to miss the Summit AGAIN for another wedding in Punta Cana but PASS was gracious enough to move the [...]
EDMPASS July 2011 – LiveMeeting Presentation Recording
On July 27th EDMPASS was lucky enough to have Jen McCown (@MidnightDBA) as a guest (virtual) speaker. Here is the session abstract: Unraveling Tangled Code – A Spellbinding Tale of Victory Over Chaos Once upon a time, you inherited an application or a database that was filled with chaos and inconsistencies. The T-SQL code is [...]
Temp Tables and Primary Keys
Just a quick little post today on a little “gotcha” that may getcha. Let’s say you’re creating a stored procedure that needs to create a #temp table that has a PRIMARY KEY. You will want to be careful about how you create this #temp table and here is why: Open SQL Server Management Studio and run the [...]
My New Job
So if you read my last blog post: Wind of Change you were both subjected to some 80s “rock” care of Scorpions and my announcement that I was leaving my then current gig for a new contract. I’m now happy to formally announce that I’m the new Senior DBA for Invidi. This is an exciting opportunity [...]


