I hope you’ve had a great week! Make sure you don’t miss out on posts by Subscribing to the Blog Feed. You can also receive this Blog feed via Email. Here’s your weekly roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Techie Stuff. Enjoy! SQL Server Links Additional Resource Added! – The results are in! The latest Blogger rankings […]
Seven Reasons You Should Attend SQLBits 7
SQLBits is Europe’s Largest SQL Server Event That’s right, just take a moment to let that point hit home. If you are only able to attend one SQL Server event in Europe this year, this is the one you are going to want to choose! Maybe the PASS Summit 2010 is not a practical option […]
Something for the Weekend – SQL Server links for the week 16/07/10
I hope you’ve had a great week! Make sure you don’t miss out on posts by Subscribing to the Blog Feed. You can also receive this Blog feed via Email. Here’s your weekly roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Techie Stuff. Enjoy! SQL Server Links Benchmarking: Introducing SSDs (Part 2: sequential inserts) – Here’s Part 2 of […]
Something for the Weekend – SQL Server Links 09/07/10
I hope you’ve had a great week! Here’s your weekly roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Techie Stuff. Enjoy! SQL Server Links Using a UDF as a SARG. Make a hash of it! – Query optimization post. One Size Mostly Fits All – Thom LaRock talks fashion and general purpose database servers. Comparing […]
Something for the Weekend – SQL Server Links this Week 02/07/10
I hope you’ve had a great week! Make sure you don’t miss out on posts by Subscribing to the Blog Feed. You can also receive this Blog feed via Email. Here’s your weekly roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Techie Stuff. Enjoy! SQL Server Links SQL Server Instance Checklist – Following on from his posts last week, […]
Something for the Weekend – SQL Server Links for the Week 25/06/10
I hope you’ve had a great week! Make sure you don’t miss out on posts by Subscribing to the Blog Feed. You can also receive this Blog feed via Email. Here’s your weekly roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Techie Stuff. Enjoy! SQL Server Links Benchmarking: do multiple data files make a difference? – Some very interesting […]
SQLBits – The 7 Wonders of SQL – Dates Announced
SQLBits is Europe’s biggest SQL Server conference and a must attend event for all Data Professionals that work with SQL Server! SQLBits – The 7 wonders of SQL is to be held in the beautiful English town of York at the University of York no less. It’s going to be a three day event starting on September […]
Something for the Weekend – SQL Server Links for the week 11/06/10
I hope you’ve had a great week! Make sure you don’t miss out on posts by Subscribing to the Blog Feed. You can also receive this Blog feed via Email. Here’s your weekly roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Techie Stuff. Enjoy! SQL Server Links Rebuilding system databases in 2008 R2 – Apparently it can’t be done at […]
Don’t Forget 24 Hours of PASS Kicks off Tommorow
This is going to be yet another truly awesome event and I wanted to remind you all not to miss out on such a fantastic FREE SQL Server Training opportunity! 24 Hours of PASS 2010
Something for the Weekend – SQL Server Links for the week 16/05/10
I hope you’ve had a great week! Make sure you don’t miss out on posts by Subscribing to the Blog Feed. You can also receive this Blog feed via Email. Here’s your weekly roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Techie Stuff. Enjoy! SQL Server Links Career Advice for the Novice SQL Server DBA – Take […]
Something for the weekend: SQL Server Links for the week 09/05/10
I hope you’ve had a great week! Here’s your weekly roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Techie Stuff. Enjoy! SQL Server Links Looking Under the Hood – A very interesting, T-SQL performance tuning post here from Brad Schulz, that highlights how the Query Optimizer behaves when using the coalesc() function and the implications, it would seem […]
With Great Advice Comes Great Responsibility
I know that you have seen it yourself too. That forum or blog post that contains “advice” that is daft, stupid or worst of all just plain wrong. The SQL Server community is an awesome phenomena. Through collaboration and collective contribution across a wide variety of channels, the community empowers it’s members to become better […]
Something for the weekend – SQL Server links for the week 23/04/10
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 SQL Server DBA Telecommuting Tips – Some good tips here for those Database Professionals that work remotely. FILESTREAM storage, garbage collection, and more – Continuing with his excellent blog post series, […]
Something for the Weekend – SQL Server links for the week 16/04/2010
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 […]