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Something for the Weekend – SQL Server Links 09/07/10

I hope you’ve had a great week! Here’s your weekly roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Techie Stuff. Enjoy! SQL Server Links Using a UDF as a SARG. Make a hash of it! – Query optimization post. One Size Mostly Fits All – Thom LaRock talks fashion and general purpose database servers. Comparing [...]

Something for the Weekend – SQL Server Links this Week 02/07/10

I hope you’ve had a great week! Make sure you don’t miss out on posts by Subscribing to the Blog Feed. You can also receive this Blog feed via Email. Here’s your weekly roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Techie Stuff. Enjoy! SQL Server Links SQL Server Instance Checklist – Following on from his posts last week, [...]

Something for the Weekend – SQL Server Links for the week 11/06/10

I hope you’ve had a great week! Make sure you don’t miss out on posts by Subscribing to the Blog Feed. You can also receive this Blog feed via Email. Here’s your weekly roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Techie Stuff. Enjoy! SQL Server Links Rebuilding system databases in 2008 R2 - Apparently it can’t be done at [...]

Something for the Weekend – SQL Server Links for the week 16/05/10

I hope you’ve had a great week! Make sure you don’t miss out on posts by Subscribing to the Blog Feed. You can also receive this Blog feed via Email. Here’s your weekly roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Techie Stuff. Enjoy! SQL Server Links Career Advice for the Novice SQL Server DBA – Take [...]

Something for the weekend – SQL Server links for the week 23/04/10

I hope you’ve had a great week! Here’s this weeks roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Techie Stuff. Enjoy! SQL Server Links SQL Server DBA Telecommuting Tips – Some good tips here for those Database Professionals that work remotely. FILESTREAM storage, garbage collection, and more – Continuing with his excellent blog post series, [...]

Something for the Weekend – SQL Server links for the week 16/04/2010

I hope you’ve had a great week! I want to say a big thank you to everyone involved with SQLBits this week. The calibre of speakers and the quality of the presentations delivered was excellent. The highlight for me personally was the opportunity to meet with so many great SQL people and already I cannot [...]

Something for the Weekend – SQL Server links for the week 09/04/10

I hope you’ve had a great week! Be sure to register for 24 Hours of PASS 2010. Here’s this weeks roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Techie Stuff. Enjoy! SQL Server Links A DMV a Day – Day 7 – Day 7 of this excellent article series from Glenn Berry that looks at a [...]

Something for the Weekend: SQL Server Links for the week

I hope you’ve had a great week. Here’s this weeks roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Techie Stuff. Enjoy! SQL Server Links Benchmarking: 1-TB table population (part 3: separating data and log files) – Here’s the next instalment in this excellent series from Paul Randal. How to Make SQL Server Backups and Restores Faster – [...]

Soemthing for the Weekend – SQL Server Links 12/02/10

I hope you’ve had a great week. One point that deserves a special mention this week is that there will be a Service Pack 4 for SQL Server 2005 following on from much debate and pressure from the SQL Server Community. For full details of the service pack release schedule see the Microsoft SQLReleaseServices Blog. Here’s this weeks [...]

Something for the Weekend: SQL Server Links for the week 05/02/10

I hope you’ve had a great week. Here’s this weeks roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Techie Stuff. Enjoy! SQL Server Links Looking at Page Contents – A little code template here from Michael J Swart. Why You Might Want to Buy SQL Server 2008 Now – Brent Ozar explains why you may [...]