A week of using my Surfii (when you have more than one Microsoft Surface)

So while at the TechEd North America conference Microsoft gave the attendees, speakers and booth staff the ability to purchase some Microsoft Surfii (surf-I) at some major discounts.  The Surface RT was available for $99 US and the Surface Pro was just $399 US.  Needless to say I purchased both of them. I’ve been using […]

Keeping Your Speaking Commitments

Many event organizers are way too polite to publicly admit that this problem exists as badly as it does.  But a problem has been showing up way to much recently.  The problem which I speak of is session speakers not showing up for their sessions, and the even bigger problem of speakers not showing up […]

Deleting LOB Data and Shrinking the Database

While attending SQL Saturday 194 in Exeter over in England one of the attendees came to Mladen Prajdić, Andre Kamman and myself with an interesting problem.  She had a database table which was about 200 Gigs in size which she wanted to delete about half of the data from the table.  The catch was that the […]

Get a discount when attending the SQLPASS BA Conference

The SQLPASS BA Conference is coming up in April, just a few short weeks from now.  At this conference you’ll see some of the best and brightest minds in Business Analysis and Business Intelligence all in one conference.  This includes speakers like Stacia Misner, Jessica Moss, Chuck Heinzelman, Joseph D’Antoni, Denny Lee, Cindy Gross, Neil […]