One week from today, I will be conducting a pre-conference workshop at PASS Summit 2013, “From Reporting Services Rookie to Rockstar.” The official abstract provides a brief description of the workshop: Join this introduction to SQL Server Reporting Services, designed specifically for report developers who have no prior experience with the product, and learn how […]

[Note: This is repost from May 22, 2013, due to technical issues on this blog.] Each year I participate in a variety of public events, including conferences, user groups, SQL Saturdays, and webinars of all kinds. (This year, indeed next week, I’m going to an event that is part of a cruise – SQLCruise!) Through […]

The holy grail these days seems to be to get all the data into a unifying database – with relational and NoSQL camps each trying to come out the winner. Meanwhile, you’ve got data to gather, manage, and analyze, and that typically means you’ve got to use different types of storage. To get the most […]

I started my morning perusing a couple of blog posts about the recent PASS Summit which got me thinking about the SQL Community and how much I appreciate it. Then I realized the theme of this month’s T-SQL Tuesday hosted by Chris Yates (Blog| Twitter) and knew I had to join in and share my […]

I’ll never look the same way at a water closet again. (For the uninitiated, a water closet is a stall in a restroom, toilet, lavatory…you get the idea.) Before I close the door, I will check to make sure that I have an exit strategy. This was perhaps the most important lesson I learned at […]