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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 roundup of [...]

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 want to look into [...]

Something for the weekend: SQL Server Links 08/01/10

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

‘Cannot Generate SSPI Context’ and Service Account Passwords – An interesting case walk-through here from the CSS SQL Server Engineers, albeit quite specialised.
Should PASS hold the conference on the East coast – Is it [...]

Something for the weekend: SQL Server Links 01/01/10

I hope you’ve had a great week.
Here’s this weeks, smaller than usual due to the Holidays, roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Techie Stuff. Enjoy!
SQL Server Links

sp_db_space_usage – A very nice stored procedure from Tibor Karaszi for reporting database size details.
Getting the ISO Week and Year – Handy little function here with some [...]

Something for the weekend: SQL Server Links (Xmas Edition)

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

Delimited String Tennis Anyone? – An interesting look at the performance implications of using XML to process delimited string data resulting from a derived column cast. Brad Schulz discusses.
Those Four Little Words – A [...]

Something for the weekend – SQL Server Links 11/12/09

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

How Quest is Bringing DBAs Online – Discover how Quest are harnessing the expert knowledge of DBA’s globally in this post by Brent Ozar.
Finding your Missing Keys – Well defined relationships are a fundamental [...]

Something for the Weekend: SQL Server Links this week 14/08/09

I hope you’ve had a great week!
This weeks hot topic has been the release of SQL Server 2008 R2. The SQL Server guru’s fortunate enough to get their mitts on a copy, let along have the time to play with it, have been sharing their findings on the Blog-sphere.
Here’s this weeks roundup of SQL Server [...]

Something for the weekend 31/07/09

Have you had a good week?
This past week has been both horrendously busy and challenging for me, although strangely I actually enjoyed it and  dare I say, I quite like it that way. There is just something about getting stuck into tough projects that brings out the best in us DBA’s and challenges us to [...]

Something for the weekend 24/07/09

There’s been a lot of banter and hype in the SQL Server community this week about the upcoming PASS Summit. Bloggers and Tweeters alike have been sharing their thoughts on which pre-conferences to attend, organising post conference social events and exchanging tips on networking.
If you’re not one of the lucky attendees this year then you [...]

Something for the Weekend 17/07/09

Another week has zoomed by again and so it’s time for you to kick back, relax and enjoy some the best SQL Server content on offer this past week.
SQL Server Links
VLDBs and Instant File Initialization – In this podcast, Brent Ozar talks about a simple problem: managing file growth when your files are hundreds of [...]