Category: SSC

RTFM365, Week 1

Big lessons learned this week: 1, its’ always worthwhile to go back and reread the basics. 2, sys.sp_trace_create option 4 doesn’t stop the server side trace, it stops SQL Server itself. Be warned. Boilerplate: For the next year (-10 days now), I will read from SQL Server Books Online a little every day, and blog about […]

Spotlight: Jes Borland

It’s been a few months…time for another Spotlight! Just to catch you up, occasionally someone in the SQL community – usually someone visible, but without celebrity status – catches my attention, and I feel like drawing attention and praise to that person. Over the last year, I’ve done Spotlights / Follow Fridays on Wendy Pastrick, […]

24HOP Needs Women!

“Next 24 Hours of PASS on March 15-16 2011, celebrating Women’s History Month with 24 female speakers!” Thus goes the announcement on the SQLPASS homepage.  This means that we’d like you – yes, YOU madam! – to consider submitting an abstract to speak. Off the top of my head, I can think of maybe a dozen […]