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Being a Community Marketeer can be a tough road some days, but I think the highlight of my career arrived in my inbox today. We like to show love for our friends … and this friend returned the passion in spades, and permanent spades at that! ...
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Ted Kummert opened by reiterating the message of Microsoft's increased level of support for the PASS conference, and introduced members of the SQLCAT team who were in attendance. Ted's data storage division needed to consider four main "pillars" of development:...
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This is the first full day of the PASS 2008 conference in the wonderful city of Seattle. After a great pre-con with Bob Beauchemin, a lively SQLServerCentral party and a severe attack of jet lag, I emerged bleary-eyed for the Wednesday morning Keynote...
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So Microsoft has jumped on the Cloud bandwagon. I doubt there was a single person in the room who was surprised when Ray Ozzie got up on stage and announced their new Cloud OS, Windows Azure; but I’m sure many of us were interested to see Microsoft’s...
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Red Gate recently attended the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, CA, and when we weren’t consuming copious numbers of oysters and steaks, we found a lot of time to chat to attendees. I always seem to find myself having...
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Do you chew the pen when asked to produce a one-page strategy document for a new IT project? Help is at hand from Phil Factor's Template library....
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If you have worked with SQL Server for a given period of time chances are that you have experienced, witnessed, or at least familiar with the concept of backing up a database. This task is a primary staple in the DBA diet and should always include verification...
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A little over a year ago, as I was finishing up on SQL Multi Script, Colin, our head of Product Management wandered over for a chat about what we were going to get up to next... something completely different...Over the course of the next few weeks, we...
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The SQLServerCentral technical forums have matured and evolved over the course of many years. They were initially stoked by the sweat and toil of a small number of experienced DBAs, including Steve Jones, who were willing to dedicate a substantial amount...
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Phil Factor casts a jaundiced eye through some christmas catalogues, and sees inspiration. The Pretend and Play Office. Is this the right way of approaching the season of goodwill? He ends up spotting a novel way of generating festive fun from computer...
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The tempdb system database can be found in any SQL Server instance. It is a database that is utilized by all user databases that are created within the instance. This system database is where temporary user objects such as temporary tables, variables,...
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In the promised second half of my Wix installment, I am going to demonstrate how you can install a SQL Server database as part of a software deployment using Wix and SQL Packager from Red Gate. In my experience, your average software company has exactly...
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Where are the female developers? The development department have some very talented technical testers who happen to be women, and are used to programming test harnesses and debugging applications. We also have female project managers, product managers,...
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Andrew announces the winners of Alex Kozak's Bejewelled Puzzle...
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There is a scene in the 1955 Looney Tunes short called "Sahara Hare" in which Yosemite Sam is attempting to enter a castle in the desert. After various failed methods of forced entry he encounters a secret entrance in the wall of the castle....
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In this blog entry, I'd like discuss and explore the characteristics that define an Exceptional DBA. Few DBAs will have all these characteristics, but the best DBAs will have most of them. Enjoys Technology If you are reading this blog entry,...
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After a gap of two years, Phil decides to go back to writing his Devil's IT Managers Manual. As an aid to IT Managers wanting a quiet life, here are put-downs for anyone coming up with ideas....
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IT managers and DBAs have every reason to fear litigation, Legal enquiries, Tax investigations, and audits. They are extraordinarily time-consuming, and if you make a mistake, or fail the task, the consequences for the company can be very painful. The...
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Phil admits to a laddish fascination in technology and wonders if it is a strange side-effect of testosterone. He gives valuable advice on how to counter this with a protective cynicism...
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I'm happy to see features and services of SQL Server deprecated by Microsoft if it is for a good reason. Good reasons include conformance with SQL Standards or rejection by the community of users; I consider Microsoft's commercial convenience to be a...
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Microsoft PDC is upon us again for the first time in three years. There is a packed 5-day agenda running from Sunday October 26th through to Thursday October 30th. I always get excited about going away with Red Gate. It’s such a big change from...
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Recently at an IndyPASS meeting I facilitated a general question and answer session preceding our regularly scheduled feature presentation for the month. There was a lot of great questions covering many aspects of SQL Server; but I was most excited to...
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Over the past few years we’ve seen a proliferation of new technologies from Microsoft. We have WPF, WWF, WCS, WCF, Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC, The entity framework, LINQ, Expression Studio, TFS, DLR, DSL… The list already appears endless, and in another...
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This week's time-eater, for me, was to try to create an installer package (MSI) with custom actions that install databases on SQL Servers. Typically, I had grown to like Microsoft Visual Studio Deployment Projects, because I could easily knock out some...
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We've had reports of a rare, but critcal, bug affecting the ANTS Profiler 4 uninstaller. We recommend all users upgrade to 4.1. Find out more here....
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