SQLMCM Training – Day 17

Today Bob spoke about Auditing, SQLCLR, XML, and Spatial Data. Because I already know
these concepts very well, my study notes...

Come Shake My Hand at PASS

Last year Andy Warren thought about trying to help first timer attendees at the PASS Summit with a little networking...

Correctness and stress test

Stress test SQL Server for new hardware
 Download SQLIOSim    from http://download.microsoft.com    and install on server.
When detailing the  file location , use the...

Interview with BI Expert Tim Mitchell

Tim Mitchell will be speaking at the SQLServerCentral.com track at SQL Server Connections, October 31-November 3, 2011, in Las Vegas,...

Learning Transactional Replication

I have been working on a new skill this week and that is implementing transactional replication.  I am of course...

Microsoft Small Basic

This is a bit off-topic, but I wanted to mention a great tool for beginners to learn how to program. ...

PASS Update #62

Our most recent Board meeting was Aug 11 & 12 in Ft Lauderdale (located so we could attend SQLSaturday on Saturday)....

Precision and Scale

As is the case with many of my topics of late, I came across this one by helping somebody else.  In SQL, we should be well aware of Precision...

Precision and Scale

As is the case with many of my topics of late, I came across this one by helping somebody else....

Prepare Windows 7 to create Hyper-V Virtual lab to implement SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Active/Active Cluster