Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #8

Throughout the week, I like to tweet links to the things that I’ve been reading.  Since they all come out through out...

Choose specific folders to sync with SkyDrive

Every time you run the SkyDrive Client on your device, a laptop in my case, all your files from the cloud are downloaded to...

Ybor City Farmers Market, Dogs, Kids, and Observations

Last weekend I was in Tampa for SQLSaturday #168 and made sure to make some time for family. The most...

Can’t access Operations or Applications tabs from Central Admin WSS 3.0 SP 2

Hey Friends,
Sometime when we try to access central administration and certain tabs like operation and Application management we face issues....

Reducing the size of the distribution database & improving transactional replication performance: Part 2

The impact of having data sitting in the distribution database that doesn’t need to be there can be significant.  The...

Time Pass With Transaction Log - Part 4 DDL

In this article,  We are going to CREATE/ ALTER/ DROP a table and observe transaction log records created for those DDL statements.
Our...

Every ebook from Apress for $15

Query Performance Tuning. Grant Fritchey. $15. If this doesn’t excite you, nothing will. Apress is offering every e-book for just $15...

Explore file physical structure - IAM

1. Create sample db

use master
go
CREATE DATABASE [test] ON  PRIMARY
( NAME = N'test', FILENAME = N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\master\test.mdf' , SIZE = 2048KB , FILEGROWTH = 1024KB...

Getting Nexus 7 Connected To Windows 7

Have trouble getting your new Nexus 7 connected to Windows so you can move some media files over?
Install the drivers...

IIS Express Quickie Command-line

This is a reminder to my future self for how to quickly start IIS Express from the command-line on 64-bit...