Building Software is Like
I still remember hearing an executive in IT at Virginia Power start a sentence like this, and he went on...
2008-06-06
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Heroes? Probably Not
One of the big themes this year for Microsoft (and I just saw it on the PASS Summit site) is...
2008-06-05
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Know Your Equipment
Today I ran to the co-location facility for FourDeuce and End to End Training, to upgrade our database server to...
2008-06-05
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Notes from the June 2008 oPASS Meeting
Our main presentation was on 'Unlocking the Power of SQL Compact' by Steve Lasker & Ginny Caughey. Went better than I expected...
2008-06-04
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Data Loss Mailing List and Database
The folks at attrition.org have been stalwarts in providing information to the security community for ages, it seems. I first...
2008-06-04
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A New Logo
For SQL Server, it's coming soon. Surprisingly, when I was up in Redmond, quite a few people were asking about...
2008-06-04
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Security by Obscurity?
Andy Warren points to a TechNet article about Security by Obscurity and wanted me to post some notes. Let's start...
2008-06-04
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Managing Money
First, the usual disclaimer: I'm not a financial professional, so take all of the following with a grain of salt...
2008-06-03
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Replication Error "field size too large"
Yesterday, I was fighting with an error I have never seen in the replication and not much info can be obtained via...
2008-06-03
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World Wild Telescope & Misc Microsoft Stuff
Just took a look at the World Wild Telescope and it looks interesting, perhaps just as importantly looks cool! Don't...
2008-06-03
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Blogs
Take Time to Gain Perspective
By Brian Kelley
Probably the best piece of advice I ever received is to take time to...
The Fringe Festival
By Steve Jones
I was lucky enough to take a vacation a decade ago in Edinburgh with...
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
Forums
Fulltext filter daemon host (FDHost) process has stopped abnormally
We have performed a side-by-side upgrade, from SQL Server 2016 to 2022 Developer Edition,...
Automating OSM Data Refresh in Power BI’s Azure Maps Reference Layer
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Database Mail Configuration
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Database Mail Configuration
Question of the Day
Database Mail Configuration
If I want to get a list of the configuration settings for Database Mail using T-SQL, how can I do so?
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