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Last night was the Friends of Red Gate dinner at the PASS Summit.  This was held at Ruth's Chris Steak House and can be best-described in a simple two word phrase: Porntastic Meatfest. 

I was personally invited to the Red Gate function as a benefit to being a member of the Friends of Red Gate.  Friends of Red Gate are provided full licenses to all Red Gate products.  They are influential members of the SQL Server community: Chapter Leaders, Authors, Bloggers, PASS leadership, MVPs, or they are named Tim Ford and must live in mitten-shaped states that start with "M".   They are evaluators and evangelists for ...<< MORE >>

Most of you out there in the SQL community are aware that this week in the annual U.S. PASS Summit.  This year brings us back to Seattle and so far weather has cooperated.  However, weather has little bearing when we are at a technical summit such as PASS.

PASS is not just a technical summit - it is a user community that happens to present a technical summit, both in the U.S. and in Europe.  That is what differentiates us from the SQLConnections, TechEds, and DevTeaches of the world.  It also means that PASS relies heavily on its reserve of volunteers ...<< MORE >>

It's amazing what sleep deprivation will do to your psyche.  Already facing an early-morning flight from Kalamazoo to Seattle via Minneapolis-St.Paul that would have me leaving the house before 6:00am I was paged out at 3:00am to resolve a space issue in our production cluster.  The resolution was quick, but preventative measures to ensure it would not happen prior to Monday when my new minion (and a very capable minion at that) would be in the office to do some creative backup shuffling.  Barely eaking out time for a shower and final packing process I made it to the airport ...<< MORE >>

The official launch of the SQLServerPedia wiki is about to take place. This will happen during the PASS Summit in Seattle the week of November 16th. However there is no better time than the present to spread the word on this new resource for Microsoft SQL Server information and problem-resolution.<< MORE >>

I finally received my MOO cards today and the RAWK!  I must thank Brent Ozar for turning me onto these things via his original blog on the subject.

If you're not familiar with MOO cards, they are approximately 1" x 2.5", are printed with your 4-color design from photos you supply and 1-color text on the reverse side.  Think business cards with style.  They are packaged in lots of 100 and you can supply 1-100 different images for your design set.  The process to order was a piece of cake - the hardest part was narrowing down the images from the thousands I had on my external hard drive.

Granted the price was considerably more than the typical business card: $19.99 for 100, but these are cards I'm looking forward to giving out and they are cards that will stand out.

When shameless self-promotion is the game these cards make me a winner!
                                          

                                        

        

Problems with installing SQL Server 2008 Management Studio? Maybe it's not SQL 2005 Express Tools as you're being told by the installer.<< MORE >>

You know what catches a father's attention?  It's when you hear your demure wife (or my wife) shout at one of your sons "...you better not pee in that Mummy costume!"

I took it upon myself to hunt down said mummy, after said bathroom respite and this is what I came across.

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sp_MSforeachdb yeilds unexpected results when you exclude databases compared to cursors.<< MORE >>

Need to determine what domain users are associated with an Active Directory Group that has rights to your SQL Database. Use xp_logininfo.<< MORE >>