Mount Vernon Data Systems LLC

03/17/2026

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Thought I would share this with y'all. In my spare time I'm one of the volunteer gardeners who make these gardens at Boettcher Mansion look absolutely fabulous! Enjoy the article!

By Victoria Gits, PLAN Jeffco Staff Writer and Board Secretary Three years ago, the lovely, historic Boettcher Mansion on Lookout Mountain was surrounded by a mostly neglected landscape of overgrown grasses […]

10/09/2024

It's elk breeding season (the "rut"); scenes like this are pretty much normal, but he's still gorgeous!!!

10/07/2016

Ever wonder what IT people do in their spare time? This one volunteers!!!

Our Wonderful Volunteers!!!!

04/25/2016

The Stretch feature of SQL 2016 is a winner! And the other stretch, over to Hadoop via the Polybase bridge, is awesome!

With SQL 2016 around the corner, and my blog without a post this year, I thought I would write about some of the new features. However, I’m not sure which feature I like the most to talk abo…

04/14/2016

The numbers in this slideshow are astonishing, would lead one to believe that a dollar of prevention is worth $M of cure!

Unplanned data center outages usually last longer than a typical two-hour movie and cost organizations thousands of dollars for every minute of downtime.

03/18/2016

You'll love the picture of the mouse...he's so cute!

Are you an impatient DBA?  Does it make you crazy to have to mouse around the SQL Server Management Studio dashboard?  Wouldn't it be nice to know the keyboard shortcuts that can make you go faster?

03/03/2016

Believe it or not, SWITCH (as in switching data normally stored in partitions) works on ANY version of SQL Server! Holy moly, thanks, Daniel, for this ever-so-important bit of information!

If you’re working with data warehousing or reporting, you’ll recognize this problem as a recurring headache whenever you’re designing an ETL process for fact tables: If you want t…