• Coming Right Up

    February 5, 2011
    I have submitted sessions to SQLSaturday #60, Cleveland.

    February 26, 2011
    I have submitted sessions to SQLSaturday #65, Vancouver, BC.
    This is right before the MVP Summit and is going to be one action packed SQLSat!

    March 15-16, 2011
    I am submitting sessions to #24HOP / aka 24 Hours of PASS. If you'd like to see a session, vote for me!

    April 9, 2011
    I am submitting sessions to SQLSaturday #68, Olympia, WA

    May 11-13, 2011
    I have submitted sessions for the inaugural SQL Rally in Orlando, Florida. Voting for sessions will go out soon.

  • Oh Nos! It’s Over

    December 4, 2010
    I presented "Big and Tall: Introduction to Table Partitioning" at SQL Saturday #61 in Washington DC / Northern Virginia.

    SQLPASS: November 2010
    Quiz Bowl
    My SQLPASS Quiz Bowl team won this year! Props to the raccoon hand puppet.

    Chalk Talk
    I gave a Chalk Talk at SQLPASS on Agile Database Operations.

    Lightning Talk
    I gave a lightning talk advocating peer-review based change management instead of approval based systems.

    September 18, 2010
    I presented sessions on the Data Collector and about Administering Databases in an Agile Environment at SQLSaturday #50 in East Iowa.

    August 21, 2010
    I gave a talk about the Data Collector at SQLSaturday #51 in Nashville, TN.

    August 12, 2010
    I presented to the Columbus SQLPASS User Group on how to be a DBA working in an Agile development environment.

Date Rounding Tactics and the Tiny Devil of SMALLDATETIME

Happy New Year! With every new year I think a little bit about time and dates, so let’s look at that in TSQL. Rounding Dates: Which way is best? Sometimes in TSQL you need to round a datetime value to the precision of either a day, hour, minute, or second. I realized recently that I [...]

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