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(SFTW) SQL Server Links 03/01/14

January 3, 2014 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

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It’s Something For The Weekend(SFTW) time, I hope you’ve had a great week! Happy New Year folks. I hope you enjoyed the holidays and I suspect many of you still are enjoying them, having yet to return to the grind. For those of you back at work already, you have my permission to grab a […]

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(SFTW) SQL Server Links 20/12/13

December 20, 2013 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

TribalAwards

It’s Something For The Weekend(SFTW) time, I hope you’ve had a great week! Some clearly confused SQL community folks have only gone and nominated me in the Tribal Awards category for Best Blog of the Year! They must have been reading some serious tosh these past 12 months. The Prize for this particularity category is to be featured […]

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(SFTW) SQL Server Links 13/12/13

December 13, 2013 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

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It’s Something For The Weekend(SFTW) time, I hope you’ve had a great week! What an incredibly week it has been chaps. Our free SQL community ebook DBA JumpStart has been downloaded and enjoyed by over 700 of you in a matter of days. That is quite simply awesome. I’m astounded by the overwhelming positive reaction […]

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(SFTW) SQL Server Links 06/12/13

December 6, 2013 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

It’s Something For The Weekend(SFTW) time, I hope you’ve had a great week! There was no post last week but do you think that means you miss out on great SQL Server content? Of course not! This weeks installment of SFTW is a double round-up of quality content for you to enjoy. Also, be sure […]

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(SFTW) SQL Server Links 22/11/13

November 22, 2013 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

QuickStartTraining

It’s Something For The Weekend(SFTW) time, I hope you’ve had a great week! This year is rapidly drawing to a close and like many your’re probably already looking toward 2014 pondering what SQL Server Training opportunities to undertake. If not you should be! Regular readers know that I’m a huge advocate of taking charge of […]

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(SFTW) SQL Server Links 15/11/13

November 15, 2013 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

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It’s Something For The Weekend(SFTW) time, I hope you’ve had a great week! Time to start looking toward your training opportunities for next year folks. UK chaps, I’ll see you in Exeter in March. For more details regarding the event and to register click the image below. Here’s your weekly roundup of SQL Server Blog […]

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(SFTW) SQL Server Links 08/11/13

November 8, 2013 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

It’s Something For The Weekend(SFTW) time, I hope you’ve had a great week! Here’s your weekly roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Technology Stuff. Enjoy…. SQL Server Links Making A Difference – Chris Yates(Blog|Twitter) More Azure Goodies – Grant Fritchey (Blog|Twitter) How to Write a Killer SQL Server Job Description – Kendra Little (Blog|Twitter) Inside the Storage Engine: How […]

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(SFTW) SQL Server Links 01/11/13

November 1, 2013 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

It’s Something For The Weekend(SFTW) time, I hope you’ve had a great week! Here’s your weekly roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Technology Stuff. Enjoy…. SQL Server Links Taking the MCM – Diary of a Panicker – Steven Archbold (Blog|Twitter) Corruption Monday #2 – I’m not going to lie, it’s not good – Sean Gallardy(Blog|Twitter) DBA, Grow […]

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Winner – Conference Pass to SQL Server Live! in Orlando

October 30, 2013 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

SQL Server Live Orlando

This is a quick post to announce the winner of our competition for a FREE conference pass to SQL Server Live! in Orlando. Those rather nice folks at SQL Server Live are also offering SQL Brit readers (that’s you lot) an exclusive discount of $500 for their upcoming event in Orlando this November. All you have to do to take advantage of this offer […]

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(SFTW) SQL Server Links 25/10/13

October 25, 2013 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

Tribal SQL

It’s Something For The Weekend(SFTW) time, I hope you’ve had a great week! The PASS Summit may now be behind us but there’s still plenty of great opportunities to learn about SQL Server. Make sure you enter my giveaway this week for a chance to win a Free conference Pass to SQL Server Live in […]

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(SFTW) SQL Server Links 18/10/13

October 18, 2013 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

SQLRelay

It’s Something For The Weekend(SFTW) time, I hope you’ve had a great week! This week the SQL Community has been slacking off on their blogging efforts and quite likely due to having far too much fun at the PASS Summit. You can catch some of today’s action from the Summit live on PASStv. Here’s your […]

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(SFTW) SQL Server Links 11/10/13

October 11, 2013 by John Sansom 2 Comments

SQL Server Live Orlando

It’s Something For The Weekend(SFTW) time, I hope you’ve had a great week! Next weeks is of course the SQL community Super Bowl Event the PASS Summit. I’m stuck in Blighty myself and so unfortunately shall not be making an appearance. For those of you also not attending next weeks Summit there’s still a way […]

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(SFTW) SQL Server Links 04/10/13

October 4, 2013 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

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It’s Something For The Weekend(SFTW) time, I hope you’ve had a great week! Here’s your weekly roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Technology Stuff. Enjoy…. SQL Server Links My Favorite Things About Being a DBA – Brent Ozar (Blog|Twitter) Did You Really Just Spend Thousands on New Hardware? – Thomas Larock (Blog|Twitter) Show Windows Updates Locally With […]

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(SFTW) SQL Server Links 27/09/13

September 27, 2013 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

It’s Something For The Weekend(SFTW) time, I hope you’ve had a great week! We’re back folks! Two weeks sure does feel like a long time to go without consuming a regular helping of awesome SQL content. I hope you were able to get your fix in some how. Of course, taking a break every once […]

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(SFTW) SQL Server Links 06/09/13

September 6, 2013 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

It’s Something For The Weekend(SFTW) time, I hope you’ve had a great week! The talk of the week in the SQL community has been all about Microsoft’s decision to end the MCA and MCM certifications. A rather short-sighted move in my opinion but I’m not quite ready to put pen to paper on this one […]

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(SFTW) SQL Server Links 30/08/13

August 29, 2013 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

It’s Something For The Weekend(SFTW) time, I hope you’ve had a great week! Whoa there it’s not Friday already is it? Not here in Great Britain at least but it is for Mr Paul White (Blog|Twitter) down under. Yes we’re sneaking in a day early this week chaps. No not because of the US holiday […]

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(SFTW) SQL Server Links 23/08/13

August 23, 2013 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

It’s Something For The Weekend(SFTW) time, I hope you’ve had a great week! Regular readers know that I do like a good bit of cake and I’ll often share a marvelous British cake recipe on the blog. That’s right, all those cake images in previous SFTW posts actually click through to their recipes. No cake […]

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(SFTW) SQL Server Links 16/08/13

August 16, 2013 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

It’s Something For The Weekend(SFTW) time, I hope you’ve had a great week! One of my favorite things about creating SFTW each week is that I get the opportunity to discover new bloggers. This week I enjoyed posts by John Morehouse (Blog|Twitter) and Matt Bowler (Blog). So guess what, they’re included in this weeks links round-up chaps. There’s […]

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Something for the Weekend – SQL Server Links 09/08/13

August 9, 2013 by John Sansom 4 Comments

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It’s Something For The Weekend(SFTW) time, I hope you’ve had a great week! Some of you may have noticed that I’ve been a tad quieter in the SQL community of late. No not because I’ve been slacking off dear reader but because I needed to focus my efforts in on a single goal in order […]

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Something for the Weekend – SQL Server Links 26/07/13

July 26, 2013 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

It’s SFTW Time, I hope you’ve had a great week! Here’s your weekly roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Technology Stuff. Enjoy…. SQL Server Links Many Masters, One Truth – “It’s the application requirements that dictate the database platform, not the database platform that dictates application features.” – Jeremiah Peschka (Blog|Twitter) How to Find ‘Secret […]

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