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Here’s your weekly roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Techie Stuff. Enjoy!
SQL Server Links
- Creating a new Login on Multiple Servers with the same SID using Powershell – The magic that is PowerShell from Jonathan Kehayias (Blog|Twitter) this week.
- Geek City: Where are LOBs stored? – This was a particularly interesting read for me following on from the internals class I attended last week. Kalen Delaney (Blog|Twitter) provides a T-SQL walk through.
- Reflecting on week long Training with SQLSkills – Reminiscing about the good times had by all, it’s Neil Hambly(Blog|Twitter).
- Validating a Cluster with Zero Downtime – Some excellent advice from the Failover Clustering and Network Load Balancing Team Blog (Blog). If you administer and deploy Clustered solutions you will want to read this.
- Understanding Benchmarks – Wes Brown (Blog|Twitter) discussing tools of the trade, where to turn for your information and probably the best movie of all time.
- How to run sp_browsereplcmds on a Distribution db backup – An interesting from the Microsoft SQL Server Replication Support Team(Blog). If you administer a replicated environment it’s worth trying this out on a test server to get comfortable getting your hands dirty with Replication internals.
- Where Do You Go for Authoritative SQL Server Best Practices? – Brad McGehee (Blog|Twitter) puts the question out there. He means apart from this blog of course ;-)
- Inappropriate usage of high isolation level isn’t just about blocking when it comes to performance – CSS SQL Server Engineers (Blog).
- July 2011 Version of SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Queries – With the latest edition of his awesome Diagnostic Queries it’s Glenn Berry (Blog|Twitter).
- Parallel Execution Plan Contexts/Runtime Instances – Query Optimizer internals from Connor Cunningham (Blog).
- Poking Around Inside Management Studio – Satisfying his curiosity this week Michael J. Swart (Blog|Twitter) goes poking around.
UK SQL Server Upcoming Events
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- KENT – Tue 5 July – A SqlServer focused event with not one but two sql server MVPs. Tony Rogerson & Chris Testa-O’Neill
- SOUTHAMPTON – Wed Jul 6 – SQL User group evening of Matt Whitfield (@atlantis_uk) and Alex Whittles (@PurpleFrogSys)
- CARDIFF – Thu Jul 14 – Cardiff User Group. Agenda TBA
- LONDON – Fri 15 Jul – SQL in the City
- LEEDS – Wed 20 Jul – Leeds UG meeting with Steve Powell
- LONDON – Wed 20 Jul – User Group Meeting with Neil Hambly, Alex Whittles, Avanade
- MANCHESTER – Thu 21 Jul – Manchester UG meeting at BSS with Jen Stirrup and Nicholas Colebourn
Misc Technology Posts
- Security researchers discover ‘indestructible’ botnet
- Microsoft: Office 365 outages ‘will’ happen
- Google+ challenges Facebook in social network battle
That’s it for this week. What was your favourite post? If I’ve missed anything that you think deserves a mention then be sure to let me know! You can leave your comments below, send me an email and find me on Twitter(@JohnSansom).
