Author: Rick Krueger

That’s so crazy, it just might work How many times have you implemented solutions that somehow manage to fit a square peg into a round hole? It’s the

Thank you to Wayne Sheffield (blog | @DBAWayne) not only for hosting February’s T-SQL Tuesday #39, but for bringing The Rock into it. Wayne is writing a series about PowerShell and asked

Twas the night of the Release, when all through the shop, Not a developer was coding, QA made them stop; The code was checked into TFS with care,

Thank you to Sebastian Meine ( @sqlity ) for hosting December’s  T-SQL Tuesday #37. He is writing a series about JOINs this month and asked for others in the community to participate with

Which SSIS Package is DTEXEC running right now? Have you ever noticed a rogue DTEXEC process, but didn’t know which of many SSIS packages was actually running, or

A couple of years ago I emailed some of my colleagues and friends a contract evaluation spreadsheet I use to review how things are going for me professionally,

Let’s say, hypothetically of course, that the PowerShell syntax just doesn’t feel that natural to you. If you are more comfortable writing .NET code, but need to run

It was a lot more work and took me much longer that expected, but I have finally completed the blog makeover to my new blogging platform.

Thank you to Nick Haslam ( blog | twitter ) for providing the topic for T-SQL Tuesday #35: What is your most horrifying discovery from your work with

I’m guessing that many developers, and novice to intermediate DBAs, are under the impression that they are golden if no error is returned when they press F5 (or