About a year ago I started to write a blog, previously to that, for about three years I had been writing a SQL Server themed tips and articles on my website. When I started writing the blog I decided to build it into my existing domain name, that I think… Read more

The results of the SQLServerPedia Awards 2010 are out....I was nominated in two categories and I won the "New to SQLServerPdeia" award. Being nominated was a nice unexpected surprise and winning is unbelievable, it actually ties in nicely with my blog's one Hundredth post and a nice way to finish…

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I wasn’t going to make a special effort for the one hundredth post on my blog, I was intending to let it slip by without much of a mention…But I couldn’t help myself. I have maintained a SQL themed website since 2007 without much luck in term of hits and… Read more

I have been catching up on some blog posts and I read a few posts by well known bloggers like Grant Fritchely and Mike Walsh about voting for their posts in the SQLServerPedia blog awards. So I visited the links they provided to have look at what was what… Read more

I got asked a question today that I though was quite interesting. If my backup starts at 6pm and it runs for say 30 minutes what happens to the transactions that occur during the 30 minutes that the backup is running?

The short answer:

All committed transactions that run during… Read more

WOW this is the 12th TSQL2Sday albeit this month’s is week early because of the PASS summit next week, so these little blog parties have been running for a year now. This month is being hosted by none other than Paul Randal (Blog|Twitter) and we are… Read more

Some friends of mine decided to support the Movember charity this year. I would try and explain what Movember is but the charity website  does a much better job than anything I could put together:

“Movember challenges men to change their appearance and the face of men’s health by growing…

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