Planning for Maintenance
On Monday, Microsoft released an out-of-band security patch to address the .LNK vulnerability. This affects Windows XP, including Windows XP...
2010-08-06
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Free SQL Server Training for the Week of August 9, 2010
Monday
SQL Lunch - SSIS Design Patterns 1a: Introduction to SSIS Design Patterns - Andy Leonard
Tuesday
PASS Application Development Virtual Chapter - Where the bl**dy...
2010-08-06
1,222 reads
Simple Script to Determine Who To Kill (SPIDs)
I'm mostly working now supporting the building of SSIS packages for ETL. And on one particular project we've been making heavy...
2010-08-06
758 reads
Midlands PASS Meeting - August 10
Topic: Creating a SQL Server Utility Environment
Can SQL Server be offered as a service (SQLaaS)? Can SQL Server be treated like...
2010-08-05
777 reads
GTD: Emergency Scanning versus Processing
Cross-posted from The Goal Keeping DBA blog.
I'm making an earnest effort to work through Getting Things Done in an effort...
2010-08-05
757 reads
Free SQL Server Training for the Week of August 2, 2010
Tuesday
PASS Performance Virtual Chapter - Parallelism and Performance - Are You Getting Full Return on Your CPU Investment? - Adam Machanic
Thursday
SQL Lunch - Analysis...
2010-07-30
1,582 reads
Free SQL Server Training for the Week of July 26, 2010
Tuesday
Pragmatic Works - SSIS Management for the DBA - 11 AM EDT - Brian Knight
PASS Application Development VC - The Benefits of SQL Azure...
2010-07-23
815 reads
Free SQL Server Training for the Week of July 19, 2010
This will start a new trend on my blog. Every Friday morning I'll have a blog post covering the free SQL...
2010-07-15
753 reads
Pruning the Blog List
I went through the exercise months ago where I tried to re-organize my blog reading to be more efficient at...
2010-07-15
841 reads
SQL Lunch Presentation Today and Wednesday
A heavy week for SQL Lunch with two presentations!
There is another SQL Lunch presentation scheduled for today at 12:30 EDT. Join...
2010-07-12
579 reads
Blogs
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server
By Arun Sirpal
“What exactly did it do on my server?” is the first question a DBA...
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
By James Serra
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
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Checking the Error Log III
If I want to run sp_readerrorlog on SQL Server 2025, what permissions do I need?
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