It’s a Deal, It’s a Steal…
Its the sale of the century. To coin a cleaned up phrase from a Guy Ritchie film (either Snatch or...
2011-04-27
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Blog Posts
Microsoft Certification Exams: Costs are Increasing
It was announced yesterday that the cost of taking a Microsoft exam will increase from the 1 July. In the...
2011-04-27
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Powershell Day 27
Day 27 Inventory As discussed ealier about wmi, wmi is a good for accessing inventory data from remote system as:...
2011-04-27
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Presenting On DR & HA Twice This Week
Just a quick mention that I'm presenting Paging DR Availability, You're Wanted in the Recovery Room twice this week - today,...
2011-04-27
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The developer / DBA relationship.
G’day,
A large part of my job involves liaising with developers. I spent the first 8 years of my IT career working as...
2011-04-27
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What name should I call myself?
In creating this blog, I was thinking about using some catchy name for myself. Something with “DBA” in it. However,...
2011-04-27
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What’s Mentoring?
We have just kicked off The Mentoring Experiment after talking about it for months. There has been a lot of...
2011-04-27
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A SQL Experiment – Mentoring
News Flash The SQL Community is about to get stronger. Why? There is a great new initiative that was recently launched. Steve Jones and Andy Warren are teaming up...
2011-04-26
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A SQL Experiment – Mentoring
News Flash
The SQL Community is about to get stronger. Why? There is a great new initiative that was recently launched....
2011-04-26
799 reads
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 26
For Day 26 of this series, I want to talk a little about laptop processor selection (since I get a...
2011-04-26
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Blogs
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
Forums
How to change the FDLaunch Error log file location
The file FDLAUNCHERRORLOG gets created in the default <instance>\MSSQL\Log folder. So far, I've found...
what data type i should use for roversion col and can i use less than greater
can i use Rowversioncol ( in my database it's synonyme timestamp is used) to...
Radius Latitude Longitude
I have a table with latitude longitude in the format. 45.123456 , -111.123456 ,...
Question of the Day
A Fun Computer Quote
Which movie featured this quote?
"All programs have a desire to be useful."Happy April Fools! See possible answers