SQL Server Consulting: Weekly Round-up

The first full week in 2013 has been a a busy week for me with lots of SQL Server consulting...

#SQLSaturdayExeter–Superb SQL Server Event

#SQLSaturday194 is coming to Exeter on the 8th – 9th March.

What is SQL Saturday?  The brain child of Steve Jones,...

Day 10 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Monitoring for Corruption Errors

31 Days of Disaster Recovery
It’s day 10 of my 31 Days of Disaster Recovery series, and I want to...

DBCC Memorystatus SQL2012 – A quick observation for node Process/System Counts

This post is not a detailed explanation of DBCC Memorystatus for SQL2012,but a quick observation I made recently for the...

Reblog: January 5 to January 11

Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post.  The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...

Rename the SQL Server Management Studio shortcut

Jorge Segarra (blog | twitter) was giving a presentation and he remarked on how the SQL Server Management Studio shortcuts have...

Scaling out SQLLunch UK

As you may be aware, I have been running a lunch time user group ‘SQLLunch UK’  having stolen drawn inspiration...

Six Degrees of SQL Saturday Fargo

Do you know anyone that lives in or around the great white north that is Fargo, North Dakota?  If so,...

SQL Bits XI Registration is Now Open

Hi all,
registration to attend SQL Bits is now open.
http://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1163518
There’s a 600 capacity limit and they anticipate it to fill rather quickly. More details can be found here:
http://sqlbits.com/
Hope to see...

SQL Server 2012 with SP1 Installation Step by Step Guide - Saving System Admins, DBAs, Developers and Support Technicians A Wee Bit O' Misery

Since the last guide was quite popular (over 4k distinct views for SQL Server 2008 R2), I've uploaded to SkyDrive...