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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
SQL Server 2008 Books Online Update
I’m sure that, like myself, you are all big advocates of documentation and that you understand the importance of keeping such literary masterpieces up to date. It may then interest you to know an update to SQL Server 2008 Books Online was released this week. You can download the update from the following location. SQL [...]
