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Top 13 Mistakes and Missteps in SQL Server – #5: SSMS Is A Weapon of Mass Destruction

Top 13 Mistakes and Missteps in SQL Server – #5: SSMS Is A Weapon of Mass Destruction

There are No Background Checks SQL Server Management Studio is a lovely product. It’s powerful. It’s feature-rich. It’s not yet been wrapped in a Metro interface. It’s free and easily-accessible. Your kids can download it (probably easier than most adults can.) Your kids can share it with other kids. Heck, the middle-manager in the finance(…)

T-SQL Tuesday #41: Trial By Fire

T-SQL Tuesday #41: Trial By Fire

I owe many things to a twist of fate that placed me in front of the entirety of the attendees at the Professional Association for SQL Server Summit at Dallas, Texas in 2005.  It was the second year that I’d produced the PASS Quizbowl along with Louis Davidson.  We both enjoyed being “behind the curtain”;(…)

MSSQLTips 2013 Champion Award

MSSQLTips 2013 Champion Award

I was caught off guard yesterday when a box arrived from my friends at Edgewood Solutions.  You may know Edgewood better by the site they run, MSSQLTips.com.  Shortly after my first writing “gig”, an article for Simple-Talk back in 2007, I was approached by Jeremy Kadlec and Greg Robidoux at Edgweood about writing for their(…)