Using TDD To Create A Working Application In C# : Part 2

Last FM Wrapper
You know that web project we created? You can completely forget about that for now as this is...

Answer the Question Asked

“Bill, are you running SQL R2 on your desktop?”
This seems like a simple enough question, yet I usually cannot get...

Ethics and Power

Power corrupts.
A famous quote, and it’s one of the the most true quotes I’ve seen in my life. When someone...

File Group Backups - Intro

What is File Group backup?

Backing up a portion of a database, say a File Group is termed as Filegroup...

Friday SQL Nugget #1

Gee thanks Jes (blog|twitter). Just what I wanted, a little extra work on a Friday afternoon. I used to like...

HP DL980…now this is a server!

I have been fortunate the past few months to be working on a HP ProLiant DL980 G7 Server.  This is...

Moving Database Files and Replication

Today’s post is a quick one as I am a bit under the cosh.
There are many ways to move database...

Re-blog – January 6 – January 12

Welcome to the Friday Re-Blog summary post.  The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may...

Bloopers from Dec 2012

The raw ones from podcasts in late Nov and Dec 2011.
Dec 2011 Bloopers
Filed under: Blog Tagged: Humor, syndicated

Database Mirroring From SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CU3

I recently ran into a production instance of SQL Server 2005 SP2 (Build 3042) that is running in a two...