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December
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The Next 24 Hours of PASS
Calling for Presenters! PASS has announced the next 24 Hours of PASS and it will be on March 15 and 16. The event will feature 12 back-to-back webcasts presented each day. March also happens to be Women’s History Month. This is an annual celebration, in the United States, that ...
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SQL Craft Fair
Have you ever been “dragged” to a long weekend afternoon at a craft fair? Did it look something like this? This smiling lady with the 5 o’clock shadow holding the jugs is excited about one of two things. 1. There is unusually high amounts of traffic at at the ...
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Microsoft SQL Server High-Availability Videos and Q&A Log
You Want Videos? We Got Videos! I always enjoy getting the chance to catch up with author, consultant, and Microsoft Clustering MVP Allan Hirt. Allan and I recently presented two sessions covering an overview of high availability in Microsoft SQL Server and, the following week, a demo of how to ...
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Microsoft SQL Server High-Availability Videos and Q&A Log
You Want Videos? We Got Videos! I always enjoy getting the chance to catch up with author, consultant, and Microsoft Clustering MVP Allan Hirt. Allan and I recently presented two sessions covering an overview of high availability in Microsoft SQL Server and, the following week, a demo of how to ...
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A New Look at SQL Saturday
SQL Saturday #66 is no longer a dream… Here it is. (I got lucky that we got the SQL Sat number of my all-time favorite hockey player Mario Lemieux, I wonder if we could get SWAG related to that?) A number of years ago a bunch of us here in ...
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RTFM365
Physicians have primum non nocere – a Latin phrase that means “First, do no harm”. (Thank you, WikiPedia.) I think for techies, our principal precept is primum RTFM. (Here’s more Wikipedia, if you missed the joke.) I don’t know as much about SQL Server as I should, or as ...
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PASS Summit is NOT a Conference
I recently had lunch with my boss to pitch him (yet again) for PASS. He does not make the actual decision, but if he feels it is worthy, he sends it up the management chain. He sees the value and always sends it up, but it never makes it through ...
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SQLBits 7 the forgotten photos part 1
Several weeks back I attached my Blackberry to my PC to clear down all the photos in preparation for SQL Pass and I stumbled across these grainy old photos taken during those rainy few days in York. It all seems like a lifetime ago now and much has happened to ...
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2010 PASS Summit Slide Decks and Scripts
How time flies - it really has been almost 2 1\2 weeks since the 2010 PASS Summit came to a close! I'd like to say thank you again if you chose to come to my session - there were so many great ones during each time slot that I'm ...
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SQL Server Agent does not start | StartServiceCtrlDispatcher failed (error 6)
Since yesterday morning SQL Server Agent on one of the SQL Server 2000 instances is not starting. This problem started ever since the Server had an unexpected reboot. The problem is SQL Server service starts but not the Agent. The errors in the Event Log are The SQLSERVERAGENT service failed ...
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