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Errors occur. (I'm sure that's someone's corollary to Stuff Happens.) Errors occur, and that's why we write error handling code in our applications. My least favorite time for the occurrance of errors is when I'm doing demos, and that's what happened Read More...
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This week the PASS Program Committee asked me to add another session to my schedule, so now is as good a time as any to share my PASS schedule with you. DBA-208 Using PowerShell to Get the Most out of SQL Server Wednesday, November 19, 2008 10:15 AM - Read More...
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This is probably not the best time to discuss personnel development, given the current economic conditions, but then again, maybe it is. How much does your company budget for training? I was very fortunate when I was with Advanstar Communications for Read More...
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Large(r) companies tend to have a defined process for implementing change in their data centers, but small(er) companies tend not to. (Your Mileage May Vary.) This makes sense, as large companies usually have more systems dependent on each other, and Read More...
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While preparing for a presentation at PASS next month I tested my PowerShell script to back up user databases on a server. This script has been running flawlessly against SQL Server 2005 for a couple of years, so I was really surprised when PowerShell Read More...
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Now that SQL Server 2008 is out and available, Microsoft is hosting a series of roadshow events around the country to highlight the new features of the product. The sessions are four hours, with the first half focused on DBA/Dev topics and the second Read More...
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My first PASS conference was in 2003 in Seattle, and PASS had as its SIG challenge a project. The people who showed up were divided up into teams, and were given a project that had a Dev, a DBA and a BI component, and had to have the project completed Read More...
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We are pleased to invite you to the October 9th 2008 meeting of the Ohio North SQL Server Users Group (ONSSUG). The meetings are held on the 2nd Thursday of every month at 5:45 in the Cleveland Microsoft office. The address of the office is below: Microsoft Read More...
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Last night at the NYC SQL Server Users Group meeting Linchi Shea presented a session on Data Compression (not Backup Compression) in SQL Server 2008. By understanding how the compression algorithm works, and tuning your clustered indexes based on that Read More...
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It's been three years since I've had a real vacation, so we're leaving tomorrow to head to the island of Maui, where I'll be running the Maui Marathon on Sunday (Sept. 14). Aloha! Allen Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | Read More...
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We are pleased to invite you to the September 11th 2008 meeting of the Ohio North SQL Server Users Group (ONSSUG). The meetings are held on the 2nd Thursday of every month at 5:45 in the Cleveland Microsoft office. The address of the office is below: Read More...
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We are pleased to invite you to the August 14th 2008 meeting of the Ohio North SQL Server Users Group (ONSSUG). The meetings are held on the 2nd Thursday of every month at 5:45 in the Cleveland Microsoft office. The address of the office is below: Microsoft Read More...
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At Tech Ed 2008 I made a mental note when Paul Randal mentioned that you can't use Database Mirroring when you've got the Filestream feature turned on. I like Database Mirroring and so that was useful information. In preparing a bunch of demos for SQL Read More...
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The partitioned table was one of the great new features of SQL Server 2005. We could now manage data based on some range data, usually a date value, and keep the different ranges in separate physical files, and use rolling range scripts to move old data Read More...
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We all know them, they're usually developers or network admins who show some abilities when database problems arise, so they're "elected" to the role of DBA, whether they want it or not. They often don't have the necessary training or insight into the Read More...
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