Staying High

Today we have a guest editorial from Tim Mitchell. Tim talks about the need to stay motivated in your career after an event ends.

TSQL Challenge 66 - Find the most relevant advertisement based on keyw

A website wants to display most relevant ads on each of its web pages based on the keywords associated with each page.

Running SQL Server with Hyper-V Dynamic Memory

Memory is a critical resource to Microsoft SQL Server workloads, especially in a virtualized environment where resources are shared and contention for shared resources can lead to negative impact on the workload. Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 introduced Hyper-V Dynamic Memory, which enables virtual machines to make more efficient use of physical memory resources.

SQL Relay, October 2011

A series training in the UK is happening this week. Read more to find out any of the 16 user group meetings can fit into your schedule.

Closing Out Replies

This editorial was originally published on Oct 17, 2006. It is being republished as Steve is at SQLBits 9 today. Should we change the way we deal with posts and replies? Answer today.

Five Things (We Bet) You Didn't Know About Subversion

Thursday, October 13, 2011 11:30am Eastern, 8:30am Pacific

Come and learn The Truth about Migration to and Administration for Apache Subversion. CollabNet, Subversion founder and corporate sponsor, and Red Gate Software, number one in SQL source management using any SCM system, want to share five powerful truths about Subversion that will fortify your decision to leave VSS behind.

Using PowerShell for SQL Server Database Backups

If you're starting to learn PowerShell and want to see how you can use it for common DBA tasks, this tip will show you how to create a basic PowerShell script to backup all your user databases.

Custom SSMS Shortcuts for ETL Developer. Part 3: Source-Target Mapping

Provides a SQL code that generates a source-target transformation query and can be helpful at several stages of data warehouse development lifecycle.

Raw Materials - Mediocrity Defended

Somebody Has to Do It, Apparently

What’s In Your (Junk) Drawers?

Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. Andy talks today about he various items that collect around your work space. Are they useful? should you be cleaning things up? What does this say about you?