Windows 2012 Dates Announced
It appears that Microsoft has released the dates for RTM (Release To Manufacturing) and GA (General Availability) for both the Windows 2012 Server and Client Operating Systems. Both the client and server with RTM the first week in August with the server OS will be available in September and the Client OS in October. You […]
VMworld needs to provide more feedback to session submitters
I’ve submitted a lot of sessions to a lot of conferences over the years. And while the feedback from some of the conferences is a little cryptic thanks to the review team only having access to canned responses, it’ll do. Now personally I’d love to get specific feedback saying exactly why my session wasn’t submitted, […]
Prepping the security for a data warehouse
So in an earlier blog post I talked about how I had to grant some users the ability to create indexes in a reporting server. A couple of people have asked me how I created the domain groups and ensured that the permissions were setup correctly. In this case I did this with two SQL […]
Giving users the ability to create indexes
So I ran across a pretty interesting requirement when setting up a new reporting database server. The end users who run queries against the databases on this server are pretty good at performance tuning their own queries so they wanted the ability to create indexes on the tables on the reporting server. I figured no […]