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Chock-a-block full of SQL Goodness - EDMPASS
OK EDMPASS’ first meeting was a great success and I’ve been receiving wonderful feedback over the last few days. We had some good eats, laughs, and also (hopefully) learned a thing or two along the way. One of the big concerns I had (other then ordering WAY TOO MUCH ...
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SQLAuthority News – Summary of TechEd India 2009 – A Grand Event
TechEd India 2009 was undeniably a magnificent success! The 3-day grand event was adorned by delegates, sponsors, partners, customers, media as well as celebrities from cross the world. The event was marked by the CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer’s keynote, Academy Award Winner Film Sound Designer of Slumdog Millioner ...
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But It Wasn’t My Job To Do The Backups!?
It’s happened a few times, I go out to assist with recovery from some sort of failure and the question of database backups results in an uncomfortable pause. One group thought the other group was taking the backups and the other group didn’t know that the backups needed ...
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Does A Job Really Fail If Nobody Knows About It?
Have you ever gone out and made a new SQL Agent job and forget to assign notification settings for it? God, I hope I’m not the only one because that would mean I suck. This is a common issue that exists in most environments that I’ve worked in ...
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Paranoid? Control Freak? Have I got a career for you...
The above personality traits sound like bad news. In most areas of life they certainly can be. That being said a DBA needs to have a certain aspect of these to best do their jobs. As I blogged about in "Checklists, Recipes and Algorithms", I describe other careers where a ...
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Tampa Bay SQL Server BI User Group Meeting Tonight!
Just an FYI tonight is the monthly Tampa Bay SQL Server BI User Group meeting. Tonight’s presentation will be by our fearless leader Rob Hatton on Creating Slowly Changing Dimensions. The meeting will begin at 6:30 PM in the new Microsoft Office at: 5426 Bay Center Drive Suite ...
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