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(SFTW) SQL Server Links 07/03/14

March 7, 2014 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

Good reads from around the Web.

Smart Coffee

I’m pleased to announce that SQLBits, Europe’s largest SQL Server conference, will be taking place on 17th -19th July 2014. Registration is now open. See you there.

Here’s your weekly roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Technology Stuff. Enjoy….

From the SQL Server blogs

  • The Top 5 SQL Server Features You Aren’t Using and Why – Thomas Larock (Blog|Twitter)
  • What is the most worrying wait type? – Paul Randal (Blog|Twitter)
  • The Worst Database User – Brent Ozar (Blog|Twitter)
  • Capturing query and IO statistics using Extended Events – Jamie Thomson(Blog|Twitter)
  • A Community Challenge – Matan Yungman (Blog|Twitter)
  • Argue Against A Popular Opinion – Michael J. Swart (Blog|Twitter)
  • Bigger Database Servers Get Faster – Glenn Berry (Blog|Twitter)
  • A PoSH way to skin the cat – Mike Fal (Blog|Twitter)
  • Need High Availability for SQL Server? Use Windows Server 2012 – Kendra Little (Blog|Twitter)
  • Choosing The Cloud Solution Provider that’s Right for You – Thomas Larock (Blog|Twitter)
  • Rationalisation of Database with Powershell and T-SQL part two – Rob Sewell (Blog|Twitter)
  • sp_reset_connection – Rate Usage  – CSS SQL Server Engineers (Blog)

Other Stuff Worth Reading

  • Blogging is like Surfing – Brent Ozar
  • That light-bulb moment: Training the next-generation – Born To Learn
  • Rise of the human exoskeletons – BBC News Technology
  • App-pocalypse Now – Coding Horror
  • Microsoft killed my Pappy – Scott Hanselman
  • Inside Facebook’s engineering labs – TheRegister

If you have an idea for the weekly links post, general feedback or just want a chat then please get in touch. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend.

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I’m a Microsoft Certified Master(MCM) of SQL Server. I’ve been working with database technology in a variety of flavors for over fifteen years. I absolutely love what I do and genuinely feel privileged to be a part of our tremendous technology community. Got a question about SQL Server or being a DBA? Ask me!

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