SQL Server 2008 MCM Results
SQL Server 2008 MCM Results
3 weeks of intense training, intense studying, 3 written tests, and one 6 hour lab exam....
2010-04-04
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Making Sense of Replication Errors in Replication Monitor
Making Sense of Replication Errors in Replication Monitor If you've ever had to deal with errors in Replication Monitor, your first...
2010-03-27
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Measuring Transactional Replication Latency Without Tracer Tokens
Measuring Transactional Replication Latency Without Tracer Tokens SQL Server 2005 introduced Tracer Tokens (SQL 2005 | SQL 2008), a new methodology for...
2010-03-25
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Twas the Night Before the MCM ...
T'was the Night Before the MCM ...
SQL Server MCM starts tomorrow. My wife thinks it's cute that I'm excited. The...
2010-03-14
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Finding Date Ranges for Calculating Statistics
Finding Date Ranges for Calculating StatisticsI received the following question from a fellow DBA:
I need your input to derive the...
2010-03-14
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Top 6 Myths of Transaction Logs
Top 6 Myths of Transaction Logs I think there is a lot of misunderstanding concerning database transaction logs in SQL Server. I...
2010-03-10
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T-SQL Tuesday #004: IO -- Where Are My TempDB Objects?
T-SQL Tuesday #004: IO -- Where Are My TempDB Objects?
This blog entry is participating in T-SQL Tuesday #004, hosted this month...
2010-03-09
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SQL LiteSpeed Error: XML returned from Engine was invalid
SQL LiteSpeed Error: XML returned from Engine was invalid
This is a very common error returned from SQL LiteSpeed. So what...
2010-03-06
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Breaking Down TempDB Contention
Breaking Down TempDB Contention
What is tempDB contention? From the outside looking in, tempDB contention may look like any other blocking. There...
2010-03-05
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Do I have to snatch the pebble?
Attending the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) program in March
This is the most excited I've been since I heard that Alice...
2010-02-17
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Creating a Custom SQL Server Security Checklist Using the DoD STIG
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RegEx Functions III
If I run the REGEXP_LIKE() function, does it match values in a case-sensitive fashion, or a case-insensitive fashion by default.
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