The Proxy Auto-configuration URL was not found

When configuring Merge Replication for Web Synchronization it's common to encounter the error The Proxy Auto-configuration URL was not foundand
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Creating A User Group Daily Paper

A few months back, I was asked if there was a way that the information shared by the Twitter users...

find...underlings...

find.....underlings.....
searching......
underlings found......

I recently was given the task to create a stored procedure to find people who are under other people...

Presenting For South Florida SQL Server UG Tonight

Tonight, June 22, at 6:30 PM EDT I'm presenting Paging DR Availability, You're Wanted In The Recovery Room for the...

Tampa PowerShell Presentation

The presentation material from the Tampa PowerShell User Group 6/21/2011 meeting on PowerShell ETL is available here:
 

Three must-have tools you should use everyday

There are three tools I use every day without exception.  They all save me valuable time in surfing the net:
Delicious...

TransactionLog Internals

Transaction Log : >> Transaction log is tracks transaction on that database. >> There should be at least one  transaction log (ldf) file...

A Tale of Two Sandy Bridge Laptops

I recently bought a new teaching and presentation laptop, which is a Toshiba Portege R835-P55X, which I found at the...

Are all updates split into delete-insert?

This should be another quick one.
Earlier I saw a forum post where someone asserted that SQL always executes an update...

Data Compression in SQL Server

Do you know much about data compression? It seems that quite a few people I meet don’t really understand how...