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Archives: December 2005
The Perils of Java Schools
I didn't grow up in the punch card days, though I heard about it from my oldest step-brother, who did. Instead, I grew up with early PCs (TRS-80s) in school where time was limited,…
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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 30 December 2005
Last Minute Testing
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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 28 December 2005
Unpatched Microsoft Windows WMF Vulnerability
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Posted in K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security on 28 December 2005
Cute comic
My son ran across this comic and was sure I would enjoy it: http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=153
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Posted in Advice from Aunt Kathi on 23 December 2005
SQL Server Connections
I found out today that I will get to attend the SQL Server Magazine Connections conference (part of the DevConnections megaconference) in Las Vegas next month. On the heels of the SQL PASS conference in Grapevine last month, I'm still on a 'high' from what I learned there. I was… Read more
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Posted in Tim Mitchell on 21 December 2005
Aggregate queries
Be sure to read my article on SQLServerCentral on building aggregate queries: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/kKellenberger/aggregatequeries.asp Read more
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Posted in Advice from Aunt Kathi on 21 December 2005
SQL Server 2005 Administrator's Pocket Consultant available
SQL Server 2005 Administrator's Pocket Consultant
I'll spend the next couple of days looking it over and seeing what I think. I usually grab the server OS versions and they've always been good for what they are intended:…
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Posted in K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security on 18 December 2005
Salary Survey
SQL Server Magazine has just published its annual salary survey. I don’t really recall how they did it in past years, but this year they used a lot of ink talking about career satisfaction as well as money. There is a sidebar where they discuss the lack of… Read more
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Posted in Advice from Aunt Kathi on 17 December 2005
Crypt Packages for Perl
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Posted in K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security on 16 December 2005
Early Christmas
My wife and I put an offer in on a house this past Monday and spent all week kind of on pins and needles. It was a foreclosure, so someone lost it and the bank owns it. There were two offers in on Monday, so…
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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 16 December 2005
Missing some folks
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Posted in K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security on 15 December 2005
Anyone want to handle this?
It plainly says in…
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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 14 December 2005
Simple script to show what drives all databases are on
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Posted in K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security on 9 December 2005
Denver Launch
First, apologies for not blogging more, but I've been buried with kid stuff. Had my son move to a new school and it added much confusion and uproar in the home schedule.
At the…
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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 7 December 2005
New SQL Server 2005 Books Online available
Download
A quick way to tell the difference between the two is to navigate to the Legal Notice by:
SQL Server 2005 Books Online >>
Getting Started with SQL Server…
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Posted in K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security on 7 December 2005
SQL 2005 Certified
Look for some writeups coming soon on the site, but I wouldn't cram and worry too much about upgrading the development…
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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 2 December 2005