Andrew Kelly : Utilities

sp_spaceused Alternative

Andrew Kelly — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:35:00 GMT

I don’t know why but for some reason I have never liked using sp_spaceused. It probably started a long time ago when the results were often inaccurate due to the meta data being out of date. I am pretty sure that was fixed somewhere along the line but...(read more)

Project Atlanta Has a New Name

Andrew Kelly — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:57:23 GMT

Brad Anderson just completed a keynote in Las Vegas at the Microsoft Management Summit 2011 and announced the new name for what was originally called Project Atlanta. Dot da da dah… And the new name is: System Center Advisor . You can...(read more)

MySQL Migration Assistant Now Available

Andrew Kelly — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:35:09 GMT

Microsoft just announced the availability of a utility to allow you to migrate from MySQL to SQL Server. I know I have been asked about this for some time so there should be some happy people out there :). More details can be found here: ...(read more)

Clustering Utility Made Available by Microsoft

Andrew Kelly — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:02:49 GMT

The CSS team just made me aware of a new utility for cluster’s called the Remote Desktop Connection Manager. I don’t want to just repeat what has already been said so go ahead and have a look here for the details: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2010/06/23/10028855.asp...(read more)