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 […]

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 […]

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 – […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]