I hope you’ve had a great week! As you may have noticed, this Blog is brought to you from the UK and so I thought I would share with you some of our hidden treasure this week. I hope you enjoy.
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Here’s your weekly roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Techie Stuff. Enjoy!
SQL Server Links
- SQL University – Professional Development Week – An important message this week from Thom LaRock as I’m sure you’ll agree.
- Bigger is better? – Another interesting survey from Paul Randal this week, although it’s probably not about what you’re thinking.
- All about Merge Replication Fake Conflicts – More real world replication goodness.
- New SQL Server 2005 Cumulative Updates – Mainstream support for SQL Server 2005 ends in Arpil! Are you ready? Heed the words of the wise Glenn Berry.
- Concurrency Series: My application was running fine yesterday but why is it blocking today? – More in the trenches performance troubleshooting, just the way I like it.
- AlwaysOn – HADRON Learning Series – Automatic Page Repair Increases SQL Server High Availability (HA) Capabilities – A fascinating look at some SQL Server Denali magic that we have to look forward to.
- How Full is Fill Factor 100? – Well pretty darn full I should imagine but don’t take my word for it, Michael J Swart reveals all.
- Dirty Pages and Statistics IO – A nice performance tuning tip/reminder here from Kendra Litte. I know that I’ve been caught out a couple of time by this too.
- FileSystemHelper Update and Release – A very handy FileSystemHelper resource for SQL Server CLR, shared via Jason Strate.
- Did your backup program/utility leave your SQL Server running in an squirrely scenario? – Yep, I’m still not loving the choice of phrase there Bob but whatever, I think I can let it slide if you clever chaps keep delivering technical goodness. It’s the CSS SQL Server Engineers.
- Better together – the importance of great inter-team relationships – Another very interesting survey from the Paul Randal but here it is the musings that Paul shares that really deliver valuable insight.
- What are the Crappy Code Games – Who can enter?
- SQLBits 8 – 7th – 9th April – Europe’s biggest SQL Server event will be at he seaside this time around.
UK SQL Server User Groups
- MANCHESTER – Wed 2 Mar – Presentation by Atul Thakor on “LINQ and what it does” and a “Journey into Indexes” with David Betteridge at the new location – COOP Manchester
- LONDON – Wed Mar 02 – London SQL Server User Group with Neil Hambly on XQuery fundementals and Dave Ballantyne on re-engineering for faster performance.
- LEEDS – Thu 3 Mar- Leeds UG meeting with Anthony Brown and David Betteridge talking on SQL Server Replication and Index Internals – Thursday night meeting
- SOUTHAMPTON – Wed 9 Mar – Gavin Payne speaking on different replication services SQL Server offers, primary and secondary design goals of each and considerations for deployment and in-life management.
- BIRMINGHAM – Thur 10 Mar – Allan Mitchell and Neil Hambly – Covering StreamInsight (Complex event Processing and Event Stream Processing) and an introduction to Service Broker
- CARDIFF – Thur 24 Mar – Cardiff User Group with RedGate SQL Monitor, Alex Whittles on using SSRS, DMVs & spatial data to visualise SSAS cube structures, also Chalk and Talk on HA/DR/Scaling with Tony Rogerson
- EDINGBURGH – Thur 31 Mar – Scottish Area User Group Meeting – April
- SOUTHAMPTON – Wed 4 April – User group evening of Neil Hambly.
- LEEDS – Wed 11 May – Leeds UG meeting – Resource Govenor and Policy Based Management with Chris Testa-O’Neill
- SOUTHAMPTON – Wed 11 May – User group evening of TBA.
- MANCHESTER – Thu 12 May – Planning for Stored Procedures with Munsoor Negyal and another speaker- Thursday night meeting at BSS
- SOUTHAMPTON – Wed 8 Jun – User group evening of TBA.
Misc Technology Posts
- Apple beats off move to reveal Jobs succession details
- Google faces new complaint in anti-trust probe
- AMD’s Bulldozer cores to push to 3.5 GHz and beyond
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).
Photos in order of appearance from: midlander1231,Paolo Margari, Grufnik