Good Article on Data Warehousing Best Practices in SQL Server 2008
If you are involved data warehousing, or even if you are just a beginner, you may want to check out...
2009-05-28
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Blog Posts
I Can Run Hyper-V!
I noted recently that I purchased a new desktop with the intention of moving to Windows 2008 and Hyper-V. That...
2009-05-28
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Why I Say Something about Running as Administrator
On a couple of recent webcasts, I pointed out the folks were running with the local Administrator account. To start...
2009-05-28
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Catalog view: sys.tcp_endpoints
I was playing around with the endpoint catalog views this afternoon just looking at ways to do poor man's configuration...
2009-05-27
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Configuring Auto-Retry on SQL Server Agent
The goal of this post is to explain how to take advantage of Auto-Retry and why you will want to...
2009-05-27
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Minimalist Design - Part 3
One of the labs I frequently do with students is to design a database for a training business, something which...
2009-05-27
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Speaking at Augusta Developer's Guild
Tomorrow night, May 28th, I'll be speaking the Augusta Developer's Guild. This is a make-up from earlier in the year...
2009-05-27
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Using Windows 2008 as a Workstation
I have a new machine, albeit one with a bad video card, running Windows 2008 Server R2 with Hyper-V. My...
2009-05-27
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Hyper-V
A great Hyper-V blog here at Accentient Blog.
I was searching around for information on setting up Hyper-V and I...
2009-05-26
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Saved by USB
I had the video card go bad in my new desktop, so I spent a few minutes rolling back to...
2009-05-26
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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