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SQL Saturday, Seacoast SQL and January

by Mike Walsh on 01. Feb, 2010 in Community, General, Syndicate

Where does the time go?! January was an incredibly busy month with the day job, home, a battle with the flu and the wrap up of the holidays. It went felt like it took a week to go by but some good news came in January as well. This first week in February, I hope [...]

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How do -you- (I) use SQL Server?

by Mike Walsh on 04. Dec, 2009 in DBA, General, SQL Server, Syndicate

I was recently tagged in an interesting blog post by A Misplaced New Englander, David Taylor. (dyfhid on twitter). The question sounds simple enough, “How do you use SQL Server where you work?” Of course the answer is not simple. I echo Grant Fritchey’s response in his blog post that it would be easier to [...]

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How to use SP_CONFIGURE in SQL Server

by Mike Walsh on 20. Oct, 2009 in DBA, General, Syndicate

Seriously? A Blog post about SP_CONFIGURE?
I was in a Kalen Delaney’s SQL Internals class (Blog) last week. It was a great class and I learned a lot of great stuff. One thing I learned was very simple yet it was really big to me… A tip about sp_configure that she didn’t even teach as a [...]

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Dear Old Self, read these blogs…

by Mike Walsh on 13. Feb, 2009 in General, Professional Development, Syndicate

I just got back from a New England SQL Server Users Group meeting. Andy Leonard (twitter: @AndyLeonard, blog) gave a great presentation on Change Data Capture and SSIS 2008.
At the beginning of this week, I posted about things I wish I knew when I started. I tagged a couple people asking them the question and [...]

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