Walkthrough of how to setup private CloudFront distributions that utilizes private S3 buckets as their origin.

Announcing that OrcaMDF now supports databases with multiple data files.

On my way home from the PASS Summit in Seattle, I had a layover in Amsterdam before continuing onto Copenhagen. For various reasons, we were about one and a half hours delayed, and I arrived in AMS at 9:30, my CPH flight departing at 9:35. As you’d probably guessed, I missed my flight. To fix it, I was told to do a check-in at one of the self-service counters at the transfer desk. Apparently these both do normal check-ins, as well as (supposedly), get you a replacement flight in case you missed the normal one. I stuck my passport...

Live blogging from the 2011 PASS Summit day 2 keynote.

Live blogging from the 2011 PASS Summit Day 1 keynote

I'm glad to announce that I'm one of the lucky few who've been appointed a seat at the coveted bloggers table during the PASS Summit keynotes. This means I'll have an excellent view of the leynotes, and I'll be live blogging and tweeting from both. Wednesday 8:15-10:00 AM, PST: Ted Kummert, Senior VP, Business Platform Division, Microsoft Rushabh Mehta, President, PASS Thursday 8:15-10:00 AM, PST: Quentin Clark, Corporate VP, SQL Server Database Systems Group, Microsoft Bill Graziano, Executive VP of Finance, PASS For both days, 8:15 AM PST will be 4:15 PM in Denmark. The live blogging will be in English, as usual. Once...

Here's how I keep track while presenting, using my iPad as a clock.

My reflections on SQLBits 9 - Query Across the Mersay as well as on getting the most from conferences.

Here are my precon and general session materials from SQLBits 9 - Query Across the Mersey.