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 12/03/10
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 Tuning SQL Server Transactions – and Meetings – Using a similar problem solving approach for hosting meetings and tuning transactions. The root of all Evil – I know this pain all […]
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 […]
Something for the weekend: SQL Server Links 29/01/10
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 XML Validation in SQL Server Intergration Services – A nice walkthrough here from Simon Sabin. SQL Azure Frequently Asked Questions – So what’s this SQL Azure all about then? Brent Ozar […]
Something for the weekend: SQL Server Links for the week 14/01/10
I hope you’ve had a great week. Have you got what it takes to be a SQL Server DBA or are you looking for that new SQL Server role? Be sure not to miss my Top 10 Junior DBA Interview Tips. Here’s this weeks roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Techie Stuff. Enjoy! […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 04/12/09
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 Comparison: Switching Tables vs. sp_rename – An interesting walk-through that evaluates the differences between using the sp_rename system stored procedure and the partitioning support SWITCH statement, courtesy of the The Database […]
Something for the Weekend: SQL Server Links 30/10/09
I hope you’ve had a great week. You may have noticed that I have not been around quite so much these last few weeks. Well I can promise you won’t hear any excuses for posting less content from me, that’s just not my style (Apology Accepted). Aside from having enjoyed a well deserved (yes I […]
Something for the Weekend: SQL Server Links 02/10/09
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 do CHECKPOINTS work and what gets logged? – A detailed and intricate explanation by Paul Randal of what goes on under the hood of the SQL Server database engine when […]
Something for the Weekend: SQL Server Links 18/09/09
I hope you’ve had a great week. The SQL Server Guru Challenge league table has been updated to reflect the latest results. Here’s this weeks roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Techie Stuff. Enjoy! SQL Server Links The Importance of a good DR Plan – The results are in! Be sure to take […]
Something for the Weekend: SQL Server Links this week 21/08/09
I hope you’ve had a great week! New to SQL Server or just getting started on the road to becoming a DBA? Then you will want to check out the SQL Server Essentials Series. With the Holiday Season coming to an end it’s time to get the SQL Server Guru Challenge under way. If you […]
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: SQL Server Links 07/08/09
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 Stolen Pages, Ad-hoc queries and the sins of dynamic SQL in the application – Excellent well written example on how dynamic ad-hoc queries can, if left to get out of hand, […]
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 […]