Sharing how you do your job can help others be better at theirs. This Friday's poll asks a technical question. How do you determine which fillfactor to use.

How to isolate the current running commands in SQL Server

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Administration

Examining what has already occurred, while valuable in some cases is most likely not as important as what is currently taxing your server. This being the case, how do you examine the currently executing statement for each of the requests issued against your SQL Server instance?

Using Twitter and PowerShell to Find Technical Information and Join a Community

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Twitter

Using PowerShell and a little bit of .NET Framework and XML knowledge, it is possible to delve a little deeper into the information which is potentially available to you from Twitter. Jonathan explains about Twitter and shows how to use Powershell to access twitter automatically.

How to Resolve a BIDS 2005 and SQL Server 2008 Compatibility Issue

by Mohan Kumar

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Integration Services (SSIS)

Caught in between upgrades, new author Mohan Jumar has an interesting article. Using Visual Studio 2005 to save packages in an SSIS 2008 package store.

Sin City SQL

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

Join Steve Jones and a few of the SQLServerCentral community in Las Vegas this fall at the SQL Connections conference.

Adding Multiple Columns to a Table With a Single T-SQL Statement

by Patrick LeBlanc

SQLServerCentral.com

Blogs

You know, I believe the old saying, “If you don’t use it you will lose it”. Well, I write a...

Auto alert for SQL Agent jobs when they are enabled or disabled

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SQL Agent

It is often the case in large DBA teams where multiple DBAs can administer the same SQL Servers and it is not apparent to one DBA the importance of some of the jobs to another DBA. In this tip I show how you can be alerted of these changes.