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Archives: September 2007
The Quickest Podcast in the Business
So by fast I mean it took only about…
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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 30 September 2007
Clustered Indexes
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Posted in Advice from Aunt Kathi on 30 September 2007
I Don't Have a Black Eye
Halo 3
Actually it's probably the 20th, but it's close enough for a test, beta release. Hey, this is a Microsoft site, so we'll release stuff that isn't all the way there. Heck, I don' think it's any…
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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 29 September 2007
Monitoring and Alerting
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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 28 September 2007
Points or Posts
Right now we have each…
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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 27 September 2007
I Am Not In Charge
We had a development meeting today with my publishing team (meaning I'm on the team, not leading it) and the developers. We went over some of the bugs and issues we're having. Overall it's not too many bugs, but mostly issues with changes in workslow and…
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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 26 September 2007
DTS vs Linked Server
We are trying to move to version 2 of our accounting data warehouse (more likely called a datamart), but it just doesn't have everything the department needs yet. So, we still have version 1 running, a system that gets updated just once each month instead of each night. The warehouses were… Read more
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Posted in Advice from Aunt Kathi on 25 September 2007
Development at High Speed
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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 25 September 2007
Flawed URL Validation and Not Eating Your Own Dog Food
MS includes a bunch of reasonably nice validation controls in VS 2005 and one of them includes the ability to validate that a string is a valid (syntactically) a URL. Sort of. If you don't prefix it with 'http://', it says it's invalid. I'd argue that we could just assume… Read more
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Posted in SQLAndy on 25 September 2007
Writing in my sleep
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Posted in Advice from Aunt Kathi on 25 September 2007
Building a Local User Group
I've had a couple people ask me about ideas for growing (as opposed to starting) a SQL user group. While it's definitely a lot about content, formula, and presentation, it's just like running a business, it all comes back to marketing. That said, here are a few suggestions:
- Ask PASS…
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Posted in SQLAndy on 24 September 2007
PASS and new SSC design
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Posted in Tim Mitchell on 23 September 2007
More & Better News about the PASS Summit from Edgewood
I try not to just post links to other content, but the guys at Edgewood did a pretty good job of capturing what was happening at the conference and I like to promote PASS where I can. Here is what they had to say about Day 1, Day 2 Read more
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Posted in SQLAndy on 23 September 2007
Wayne Synder Elected President of PASS
Congratulations to Wayne on becoming President! I've known him for years and you couldn't ask for a guy with more passion about PASS to lead the organization. He's just a down to earth nice guy that wants to do a good job and takes the responsibility very seriously. Read more
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Posted in SQLAndy on 23 September 2007
SSC Site Upgrade
I see they finally rolled out the new site. Lots of annoying quirks so far, the biggest for me is that the URL's in the notification emails aren't coming across as hyperlinks, forcing me to copy/paste into a browser. Given that I look at a couple dozen a day, this… Read more
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Posted in SQLAndy on 23 September 2007
PASS Report Part 2
SUNDAY
I arrived safely and was in my hotel room by about 2 pm. I am the Program Committee Manager and the board member I report to, Bill Graziano,…
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Posted in Advice from Aunt Kathi on 23 September 2007
PASS Report
MONDAY
I attended Itzik Ben-Gan's all day pre-con session. He covered a lot of material and it…
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Posted in Advice from Aunt Kathi on 23 September 2007
SQLServerCentral.com - V3!
I guess if you got here, you've probably noticed :)
This was a fairly painless upgrade. The boys in the UK got up early, came into the office and converted over the database, moving the website DNS and then letting me know…
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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 22 September 2007
Tips for Presenters
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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 21 September 2007
Notes from PASS - Part 3
Today was interesting. I headed for breakfast and after a few stops to chat with friends, wound up sitting with some guys from South Korea, one of whom is actually the chapter leader. We talked a little about the challenges of trying to be a PASS chapter outside of the… Read more
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Posted in SQLAndy on 21 September 2007