SQL Saturdays are events organized by local SQL user groups (mostly) that consist of a one day training event for SQL Server professionals. I've volunteered to speak at the SQL Saturday event in Atlanta. It's being hosted by the good people at Atlanta...

A new security patch for SQL Server has been announced. You should pay close attention to this one since it may not be immediately obvious that you have a server that requires this patch. The system I'm working on currently has SQL Server 2005 with Service...

Here's another version of the reindex script that supports SQL Server 2005/2008 Standard and Workgroup Editions. It's got the online re-indexing code stripped out. If you're running something else like Workgroup, just change the code that checks for ...