Register for SQLRally by April 12th!

We’re less than 45 days from the first SQLRally in Orlando on May 11-13 and I bet you haven’t registered yet (though a lot of you have!). Maybe you’re waiting to see if the boss is going to pay, or trying to decide if it’s worth spending your own money (it is!), or waiting for […]

Got Your SQLRally Badge?

Just posted yesterday, you can download a very nice looking badge to show that you’re attending or speaking at the first SQLRally. As I get a lot more traffic via my RSS feed than direct visits to the web page I use an plugin called RSS Footer which lets you add HTML to either the […]

No April Fools This Year

I’m writing this on Wednesday after realizing – with the same dread as when you realize you’ve missed a deadline at work – that I don’t have an idea ready to publish today. Good April Fools pranks take some thought. Looking back at previous attempts maybe I haven’t reached good yet, but the goal is […]

Heading to Dallas for SQLSaturday #63

I’m off to Dallas for the weekend, flying out early this morning to catch up with Sri Sridharan (LinkedIn, Blog) who is graciously picking me up at the airport. That will give me some time in the afternoon to catch up on some writing and talk shop with whoever arrives early before attending the speaker […]

Notes from the Tampa ITCampSaturday (#1)

I’m little late posting this, but wanted to log some notes about the first ever ITCampSaturday that ran in in Tampa back on March 19th. The formula for the event was basically the same as SQLSaturday (both a minor compliment and a practical decision), with four tracks, lunch, and a few sponsors on site at […]

PDF Compression in Reporting Services

Another small thing I didn’t know, Reporting Services automatically does PDF compression in at least the case of data driven subscriptions. Found this after writing a replacement for the data driven subscriptions that we could use on Standard edition and noticing a substantial difference in file sizes (15k vs 65k). Turns out the compression is […]

WordPress 3.1 on SQL Server

I’m now running WordPress on SQL 2008 R2 SQL Express, no issues with posting and related items, haven’t loaded many plugins yet so it will be a while before I can tell you that everything works well. It seems to be a decent setup, you install a must-use (MU) plugin and aside from putting a […]

Done

When I’m in task processing mode the reply you’ll typically get from from me when the task is complete is “Done.”.. Sometimes it might be “Done!” if it was an urgent matter, but mostly it’s just “Done.”. Short and simple. If I see something interesting that might matter but probably doesn’t, I’ll add a sentence […]

PASS Update #54-SQLSaturday Wish List

SQLSaturday IT Refresh This is a draft of ideas for the upcoming IT refresh of SQLSaturday. Right now we’re trying to capture ideas and try to understand how they should be prioritized. We’re going to try to make an investment in each of three areas; public facing SQLSaturday web site, the site used by event […]

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