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I love helping people, I love to teach and I really love hearing about success stories from people in my past whom I've interacted with, had the chance to help out through eith a course, tutorial or just a few helpful hints to get them started in...
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Traditionally there has been a single option for pulling data from one result set into a new table using a minimally logged operation without pushing the data to a flat file first – the select…into statement (if you aren’t familiar with the new minimally...
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Well, it was great, I attended around 12 of the 24 Hours of PASS Virtual event sessions yesterday and the quality of the content, the preparedness of the speakers and overall lack of issues was incredible! Hats off to Rick Heiges , Blythe Morrow , Chuck...
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There are many SQL Server Saturday type events happening in the US, but this is the first we've attempted to host here. Its been a "handfull" to organise to say the least, but enjoyable nonetheless. Its taking place on the 19th of September...
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As more than 2,700 people from over 60 countries around the world get ready for the most value-packed 24 hours of SQL Server and Business Intelligence training available, PASS wanted to thank you for your amazing support and give you some final 24 Hours...
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So, been a while since I posted, there are various reasons for that but nonetheless I hope to start posting more frequently again soon (if anyone is still out there). I have started twittering as well, so follow me there as well (it's actually easier...
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OK, first things first... I have SQL Server 2008 installed locally (developer edition) on Vista, which I believe installs Powershell for you as a component... I'm using V1.0. The easiest way to see if its installed it to use the "run" command...
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Most DBA's have a hard time coming to terms with programming languages, and although I've used close to 10 in my history I've always defaulted back to my tried and trusted T-SQL to cater for my data-focussed needs... A while back now though...
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The Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism Team has put together a training Kit on SQL Server 2008 Covering the following: Date and Time Types Filestream Grouping Sets Reporting Services Row Constructors Spatial Data SQL CLR Table-Valued Parameters...
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We've got the information for next month's User Group Meeting, Channelled through SwissITPro this month. Theme: Virtualization - What's New ( VMware / Microsoft ) Language: Deutsch Tuesday / Dienstag - 7 July / Juli 2009 17:45 - 21:00 Uhr...
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For those of you who have enlisted or who are still to enlist for my help to get you through the SQL Server exams on SQL Server 2005/2008, look at this poast as it could get you an exam voucher to give you even more motivation to get through all the study...
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I attended a talk the other day and the speaker was showing SQL Server Potentials and Professionals alike on how easy it was to manage SQL Server from Management Studio. One of the areas emarrasingly was creating Database Snapshots. The presenter looked...
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We've been discussing this for so long and warning Sys Admins about making sure our servers are in proper good nic before handing over to us for the SQL install and config. So rather than just talking about it, we can point them to a whitepaper on...
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I've been working on a whitepaper for Quest (for a while) which focusses on Sharepoint Recoverability from a DBA's perspective. As you proably know Sharepoint uses SQL Server to store its data, and although the data structures and usage within...
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Virtualisation and Failover Clustering wasn't one of the options you had for SQL Server previously, but Bob Ward has just updated a KB with details on the change of stance and why its now supported :) In reading my blog, you'll know that I'm...
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