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  1. SQLAuthority News – Launch of Gandhinagar SQL Server User Group

    Gandhinagar SQL Server User Group launch event was held on March 27, 2009. This successful, well-attended event received very positive and warm community response. This launch event, unexpectedly, saw over 50 database enthusiasts participating. It was really a moment of pleasant surprise when we ran out of chairs. The otherwise ...

  2. Latest Email Scam

    Normally I do not spend any time on this blog talking about all the email scams that get sent my way, no matter how interesting they may appear. But I wanted to mention one email that came my way yesterday. It was trapped by our corporate spam filter, and I ...

  3. Pay Attention to Your WAN When Using Your SAN

    In the past few weeks I have seen a plethora of posts and articles about virtualization. Most of them are good, especially anything written by Brent Ozar. In fact, there was a great article in the latest issue of SQL Server Magazine that had a handful of quotes from Brent ...

  4. Fun with PATINDEX() and DB_NAME()

    I’m going to guess everyone can guess that DB_NAME() will give you the name of the current database when called with no parameters. If not, now you know. PATINDEX() is a little bit more fun, so before we get into things, here’s how PATINDEX() works: DECLARE @my_var AS ...

  5. Just cause it works… doesn’t make it right.

    OK so the title might not be very specific so I'm sure I'm breaking some rule about how to be a “successful” author… but if I can get a bunch of people on April Fool's Day “Rickrolled” I'm hoping enough people will read on. In SQL ...

  6. PASS Summit Call For Speakers - 8 Days Left

    I finally put together my abstracts and submitted them to PASS for the 2009 Summit. If you want to speak, but haven’t submitted abstracts yet, you better hop to it. I figured that I would go ahead and list my abstracts here so you can copy them, fix the ...

  7. DBA's Behaving Badly (2/10): DR Planning

    ... In this series of blog posts, I'll examine DBA best practices through the lens of the very opposite; worst practices ... In the last post, we discussed three backup related worst practices, one of which was not anticipating and simulating various restoration scenarios. This practice fits within the framework ...

  8. SQLCrunch: All you can eat ....

    I've just spent the best part of today getting through the backlog of links (123 of them) for posting to SQLCrunch. Obviously too many to list individually, but here's a selection; Installing SQL Server 2008 on a Windows Server 2008 Cluster Installing a clustered instance of SQL Server ...

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