New meeting Place (FREE)

I just found out and signed up for a new online meeting place. I have not tried it out but I am anxious to do so but it looks and sounds pretty nice and best of all it is free... Check it out at http://www.meetingburner.com/ and I will give it a...
Auditor Nightmare

My company has an audit coming up and I saw this post and thought I should take a look since we are getting ready for our audit. So take a look and let me know what you think about this.
Spotify Review

not to long ago I did a post about Spotify and gave you a link to go get an invite. well since then I have been playing with the service a bit, just on my PC, as I am...
Finally a New Phone

I have had the Sprint HTC Hero for just about 2 years now and I loved the phone overall. Like any device it got old and slow and stopped getting updates. Once it got really bad about 6 months ago, I rooted and romed the phone and it came back to life. Sure I had some bugs and things were not...
SQL Nexus

I use SQL Nexus all the time to identify bottlenecks of my SQL Servers and I absolutely love the tool. I ran into a small issue though where I could not always load the *.trc files. It would start and fail very quickly and move on to importing the other...
T-SQL cursor to kill all spids connected by same program

I was recently asked by one of the application teams to come up with a way to kill all spids associated with a particular application once a day. Well I am not a t-sql guru by any means so I took this as a challenge and for once I did not pull out powershell but decided to go with T-SQL. With power...
SQLSkills Training

Just got my reminder from the hotel about my stay starting this Sunday for the SQLSkills immersion event. I am very excited for this and can not wait to get there. I have a lot going on at the office and I think that this training will help me better deal with some of what I have going on. Also...
Free SQL Server Training every week

BrentOzarPLF is has started a new thing that they are calling Technology Triage Tuesdays. This is great and the first one is online at BrenOzar.com. These guys are great and I thank them...
Spotify Invite

Spotify is a music streaming service that has been around in the UK for a while now but it just launched in the US. right now you have to be invited to Spotify to get a free membership. Currently Spotify has an invite only free streaming service and you can get your invite at this link:
Netflix Price Changes

Just saw that Netflix is increasing the prices. For me this means that I will drop my disks all together and just do the streaming for $7.99 a month. I dropped cable in order to save money not just to ship it all over to Netflix. So now I will just use Redbox and or Blockbuster or Vudu when I need...