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 [...]

It’s already half a week after PASS Summit 2011 and my head is still reeling! Just when I think PASS Summit can’t possibly get any better, it does. When Erika and I arrived at the Washington State Convention Center on Sunday afternoon to register, I felt like I had just been there for Summit 2010. [...]

This morning’s keynote was opened with a SQL-themed song (written by Rob Farley) performed by the dynamic duo, Rob Farley and Buck Woody. Here are links to videos: Keynote Intro with the performance (excluding lyrics) Keynote Intro with ”I Should Have Looked the Other Way” Lyrics Thanks go also to Wayne Snyder (@SQLWayne) who, as immediate past [...]