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(SFTW) SQL Server Links 13/12/13

December 13, 2013 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

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 that the ebook has received and I want to thank you all for your support.  It was a real privilege to be able to deliver this SQL community project to you. I wonder what we might come up with next……

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

SQL Server Links

  • Bags and Shelves – You can’t sell an established Data Professional on the benefits of emerging Data Technology, they have to discover it for themselves. Mike Fal (Blog|Twitter) discusses.
  • Never an Infinite Loop Around When You Need One – An interesting piece of T-SQL wizardry from Robert L. Davis(Blog|Twitter).
  • What is Your MacGuffin? – Getting to the heart of what’s really important with Thomas Larock (Blog|Twitter).
  • Waiting, waiting… – The perception of time and what we’re really waiting on, with Rob Farley (Blog|Twitter).
  • SQL Server 2014 Backup to URL – An eye opening look at the simplicity of backing up to a remote location, courtesy of Grant Fritchey (Blog|Twitter).
  • SQL Server 2014 Diagnostic Information Queries – Here with the latest update to his renowned query set, its Glenn Berry (Blog|Twitter).
  • My Go-To Query For Waiting Tasks – Find out what a SQL Server MCM uses to get right down to the WAIT types that really matter, its Robert L. Davis(Blog|Twitter).
  • AlwaysOn Availability Groups, Backup Checksums, and Corruption – Is CHECKSUM really working for your compressed backups? Brent Ozar (Blog|Twitter) investigates.
  • Doing It Wrong: High Availability And Security – A recent observation of doing it wrong in action, courtesy of Thomas Larock (Blog|Twitter).
  • Keep it Constrained– Taking control of the Universe with Jeremiah Peschka (Blog|Twitter).
  • Spatial Index is NOT used when SUBQUERY used – More real world customer support cases with the CSS SQL Server Engineers (Blog).
  • The Four Answers To “How Big Is Your SQL Server?” – Sizing it up with the big man, its Brent Ozar (Blog|Twitter).

SQL Community Forum

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Being discussed right now in the SQLBrit Community Forum by DBAs.

  • How to find the low hanging fruit
  • how much time you guys spend to self-improvement
  • Deployment Strategies
  • Documentation and Collaboration

Misc. Technology Posts from Around the Web

  • How I Got Over Google Reader and Learned to Love Newsblur – Kendra Little
  • Aldi ‘low-cost’ tablet sells out – BBC News Technology
  • China’s supercomputing whizzkids – TheRegister
  • The 12 cyber-scams of Christmas – BBC News Technology
  • iPad bouncy chair lets APPLE BABYSIT tots – parents – TheRegister

Have you read a great post or article that others might enjoy? We’d all love to know about it so please feel free to share it in the comments and on Twitter(@SQLBrit).

If you enjoyed this weeks round-up of SQL content the best way to show your support is by sharing it.

Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!

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About John Sansom

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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