Blog Series

Weekly links for 11-21-2011

SQL Server 2012 Release Candidate is now Available from SQL Server Team blog

The Data Scientist from BuckWoody

7 Scaling Strategies Facebook Used to Grow to 500 Million Users  HighScalabilty

10 Sloppy Social Media Mistakes to Fix NOW from Hubspot Blog

What is Hadoop? And Why is it Good for Big Data?  from The Data [...]

SQLskills Community Mentoring and me

As some of you might be aware Paul Randal (blog | twitter) has just announced the launch of a new SQL Skills Community Mentoring program for a few individuals that took part in the SQL Skills Immersion Events. I’m deeply honored to be one of the select few that get access to invaluable advice from [...]

We are family!

This is the second time I’m writing a post in the  “Meme Monday” series and this time it originates from Tom LaRock (blog | twitter). The topic is : What #SQLfamily means to me.

This weekend I participated in a #SQLfamily reunion in Washington, DC. Some might argue that this is called SQL Saturday #96 [...]

How to: Poor man’s cursor template for batch processing

John Sterrett blog|twitter asked a question about “How do I loop by rowcount in SSIS? I have a table with 5 million IDs and would like to loop to process 10K at a time. #sqlhelp”

This cannot be done natively in SSIS but you could create a stored procedure that uses the concept known as [...]

Presenting 2 sessions at SQL Saturday #96 in Washington, DC

I am deeply honored that I was chosen to present 2 sessions at SQL Saturday #96 in Washington, DC this Saturday,   November 5, 2011!

Location is: Microsoft MTC 5404 Wisconsin Ave, Suite 700 Chevy Chase, MD 20815

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Subway: Friendship Heights Metro Station

SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those [...]