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Made It To The Top of Kilimanjaro

All I have managed to climb Kilimanjaro and went to the summit (Uhuru Peak) on 17/10/2009. It was absolute torture, but it was worth it. Thank you for all the support and donations. If anyone wish to donate, can do so via http://www.justgiving.com/sutha/ Microsoft didn't sponser me by the way. Thanks...

Posted to Sutha's SQL BI Blog (Weblog) by tsutha on 10-28-2009
SQL Server MVP Deep Dives book available for preorder

Along with 53 other MVP's I've contributed a chapter to the SQL Server MVP Deep Dives book which is now available for preorder. All author royalties, along with a contribution from Manning Publications, go to support War Child International (visit www.warchild.org for more information). To order...

Posted to sqldbatips.com blog (Weblog) by sqldbatips on 10-27-2009
Keeping up with SQL Server KB articles

One of the most useful tools for anyone involved in day to day support of SQL Servers is being able to keep up with the latest Microsoft Knowledge Base articles for the products you support. There are RSS feeds available for each of the currently supported editions that allow you to keep up to date with...

Posted to sqldbatips.com blog (Weblog) by sqldbatips on 07-29-2009
Kilimanjaro

All I am climbing Kilimanjaro end of Sep 09 / Oct 09 (Depending on travel arrangements) well before Kilimanjaro is Released by Microsoft . I am doing this out of my own money, but I would like to raise some money to the charity which helped my colleague and friend Jim Wright in his last weeks and days...

Posted to Sutha's SQL BI Blog (Weblog) by tsutha on 03-23-2009
Very forgiving T-SQL parser behaviour

One of the thinks I like about working with SQL Server is that there's always something new to learn. Sometimes, as in this case it doesn't have much of a practical benefit. Whilst running a trace on a database application to troubleshoot why it wasn't working properly I noticed a query that...

Posted to sqldbatips.com blog (Weblog) by sqldbatips on 01-17-2009
SQL 2008 Unleashed

In the UK we had a Technet event at Microsoft Reading last Wednesday to celebrate the RTM of SQL Server 2008 (see more here ). It was a great day with lots of interesting and fun sessions highlighting some of the benefits and new features of SQL Server 2008 as well as a Rock Band setup for the party...

Posted to sqldbatips.com blog (Weblog) by sqldbatips on 09-15-2008
SQL Server Beta

All Most of you probably know this. I just found out about this site. If you want to play with SQL Server 2008 you can do it here at SqlServerBeta. It is totally free, you just need to sign-up and you would get 100MB database space. It will give you your own space to play with. Keep an eye out for MDM...

Posted to Sutha's SQL BI Blog (Weblog) by tsutha on 01-30-2008
Presenting again at SQLBits

I am presenting on Microsoft's Master Data Management (MDM) at SQLBits . Thank you for all voted for my session. See you all there. Thanks Sutha

Posted to Sutha's SQL BI Blog (Weblog) by tsutha on 01-28-2008
Stored Procedure parameters

Here’s some more SQL that writes SQL. One way of debugging a stored procedure is to chop off the CREATE PROCEDURE at the top and replace it with DECLARE and SET statements for the variables, then step through the stored procedure. The following SQL gives an easy way of extracting the stored procedure...

Posted to Danny's SQL Server and Internals Viewer Blog (Weblog) by Danny on 01-22-2008
SQL Internals Viewer on LearnSQLServer.com

Scott Whigham at LearnSQLServer.com has featured SQL Internals Viewer in a new series of video tutorials. The site has a whole range of video tutorials on SQL Server covering the basics right up to advanced topics. I've seen the videos and they are a good introduction to the app and what you can do with...

Posted to Danny's SQL Server and Internals Viewer Blog (Weblog) by Danny on 01-12-2008

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