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Something for the weekend: SQL Server Links 08/01/10

January 8, 2010 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

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

  • ‘Cannot Generate SSPI Context’ and Service Account Passwords – An interesting case walk-through here from the CSS SQL Server Engineers, albeit quite specialised.
  • Should PASS hold the conference on the East coast – Is it time to relocate the PASS summit?
  • Introduction To Resource Governor – Here’s an excerpt from Brad McGehee’s ebook on this excellent feature, new to SQL Server 2008.
  • PASS Summit Venue – Banter from SQLRockstar.
  • How to Read the Results of SELECT @@VERSION in SQL Server
  • Plan and Prepare or Just Do It? How about Both! – What type of Data Professional are you? Are you a Planner or do you prefer to Just Do It and get things done? Buck Woody discusses.
  • Delimited String Tennis (Again) …..The Final Volley –
  • Misconceptions around database snapshots and transaction rollbacks
  • MERGE and OUTPUT – the swiss army knife of T-SQL – Some nice clear example of how to put these commands, new to SQL Server 2008, into good use. Courtesy of Jamie Thomson.

Misc Techie Stuff

  • Social Sunday: LinkedIn Update – Here’s Andy Leonard’s thoughts on his Social Networking experiences.
  • Social Networking or Professional Networking? – A rather negative and perhaps narrow minded view, on the use of Social Networking for Professional Networking.
  • My Favourite WordPress Plugins Lately – Some great Plugin ideas here for your Blog, from Brent Ozar.

That’s it for this week. If I’ve missed anything that you think is worth mentioning then be sure to let me know. Fire me an email or Follow me on Twitter.

Filed Under: Link Posts, SQL Server Community

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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