Mirrored Backups Posted on SSC

This was fun to run through, nice to see MS adding features even if in my view they didn't quite...

Tampa Code Camp 2007

Web site just went live for this year. Brian & I both presented sessions last year and we're planning to go...

Clustered Index Seek or Key Lookup

When I teach performance tuning I always remind students to be cautious about service packs because things you "know" may...

Speaking at PASS 2007

I'll be doing a spotlight session called 'Transactional Replication for Beginners' this year. I've been speaking at the Summit since...

Book Reviews

I've got a new article running on SSC today with a few more book reviews: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/awarren/2998.asp.

Career Book Reviews

Working in the corporate world can be a challenge and most of us muddle through our careers without really having any formal training. Andy Warren has spent time proactively working on his career and learned a great many tips and tricks for succeeeding as an employee and a manager. He brings us a few book reviews that might help you cope with the strange corporate world in which so many of us work.

SQL Server 2005 Books

There have been a huge number of SQL Server 2005 books released in the last year, but which ones are worth buying? Here are reviews
of three new books from one of the SQL Server gurus.

Replicating Identity Columns

SQL Server 2005 has changed replication dramatically and one of the changes is that subscriber tables have the identity
column. SQL Server guru Andy Warren takes a look at what impact this has on transactional replication.

Introduction to ADO - The Command Object

The third article in a four part series, this week Andy shows how to use the command object to work with stored procedure parameters.

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