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Archives: January 2011
Shameless Plug: My First SSC Article Published Today
Please forgive the shameless plug. My first article was published today on sqlservercentral.com. It’s titled “Backup and Housekeeping with Maintenance Plans” Here is a link if you want to read it:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Backup+/+Restore/72234/
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2 comments, 137 reads
Posted in The SQL DBA in the UK on 26 January 2011
Ebooks: Deal of the Day
Apress, as I expect you know, publish some really good SQL Server books. Some of which are on the MCM reading list. Each day Apress offer an ebook from it’s catalogue for a bargain basement price of $10 in its Deal of the Day. (About £6.50). If you… Read more
0 comments, 105 reads
Posted in The SQL DBA in the UK on 24 January 2011
My Prize Has Arrived!
Back in November, I was lucky enough to be nominated and then got enough votes to win the New to SQLServerPedia category in the SQLServerPedia.com’s inaugural blogger awards. Quest sent all those nominated a nice prize pack of notepad, pen, T-shirt and best of all some “BuckyBalls” which was a… Read more
3 comments, 82 reads
Posted in The SQL DBA in the UK on 17 January 2011
Which Process ID is SQL Server running on?
There was an interesting question posted on a forum recently, asking how can you tell which sqlservr.exe process (shown in task manager) is mapped to which specific instance of SQL Server running on a server, if you have a multi-instance server and the account running each separate SQL Service is… Read more
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Posted in The SQL DBA in the UK on 4 January 2011