First Beta of Standalone SQL Agent released

It took me a little less time than I expected to get an acceptable build put together. Continued »
Standalone SQL Agent Status Update (Jan 28, 2009)

I've made some good progress on the Standalone SQL Agent that I've been working on. Continued »
SoCalCodeCamp Photos were posted

Marc Salsberry has posted some pictures from the SoCal Code Camp on his facebook page. If you know of other pictures please post links here or on Twitter...
Back To Basics: What are indexes and what are they used for?

A while back someone posted on the ITKE forum asking what Indexes where, and what they were used for. I put up a quick answer, but I felt that it deserved a more in depth blog post; so here it is.
How do you source control your database, in your environment?

I'm curious about how various people are handling source control in their...
#SoCalCodeCamp was a blast

This weekends SoCal Code Camp was great. Continued »
Viewing SQL Server Plan Guides

So you've saved a plan guide into your SQL server, and you want to look at the plan. You can Query the sys.plan_guides catalog view and see the data exactly as you entered it, which works fine if you just have a hint in there. But if you have a full XML query plan that isn't going to do you a...
SoCal Code Camp This Weekend

Don't forget that the SoCal Code Camp is this weekend on the Cal State Fullerton Campus. The Code Camp is a free training session with about 100 sessions being held by local IT Professionals for local IT Professionals (or anyone else who wants to come...
Windows 7 After my first week

Well, I've had Windows 7 for a week now, so I think that its time for an update. Continued »
The virus Win32/Conflicker.B is still running around the Internet
