SCSUG April Meeting Reminder

A reminder to anyone in the Brevard County Florida area:

 
The SCSUG monthly meeting is at 6:30 on Thursday, April...

Swing and a Miss

I missed my first newsletter today. It wasn’t until I went to schedule tomorrow’s that I realized I hadn’t sent...

Uninstall 64 bit and reinstall 32 bit SQL Server

For reason's beyond the scope of this post I needed to uninstall a 64 bit version of SQL server standard...

What I Do to Prep a Technical Presentation

This was a question asked on Twitter the other day, "How do folks prepare for a presentation?" Here are some...

Writing With More Than One Voice

I’ve been blogging for a couple of years now and have slowly settled into the style and pattern of blogging...

A DMV a Day – Day 5

The DMV for Day 5 is sys.dm_db_mirroring_auto_page_repair, which is described by BOL as:
Returns a row for every automatic page-repair attempt...

Express Yourself Clearly

Recently my son had a short paper to write for school. He’s a sixth grader, and this year is a...

Get Users By Connection

Introduction
I was recently working a production issue that required me to log in via the Dedicated Administrator Connection (DAC). When...

HTC Pro Trade-In

I saw a note that T-Mobile is accepting trade-ins of an iPhone for credit towards a new HTC HD2. That’s...

Microsoft Drops Support For Itanium after SQL Server 2008 R2

Microsoft’s Dan Reger has announced that Microsoft will not be supporting the Itanium architecture after Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL...