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  1. Our Busy Busy, Datachix-sy Schedule Revised as of 8/23/2011

    Audrey and I had to have an emergency board meeting tonight to discuss the state of the DatachiXiness. We are completely stoked (and a little verklempt) about the upcoming months: September 8th Audrey previews her Summit Spotlight Session at 24 Hours of PASS, T-SQL Awesomeness – 3 Ways to Write ...

  2. SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Easy Introduction to CHECK Options – Day 24 of 35

    Answer simple quiz at the end of the blog post and - Every day one winner from India will get Joes 2 Pros Volume 4. Every day one winner from United States will get Joes 2 Pros Volume 4. Using Check Option CHECK OPTION is a very handy tool we ...

  3. What is Microsoft’s mobile BI strategy?

    My post about Sharepoint and the MS BI strategy last month generated a lot of debate; an equally hot topic is that of Microsoft’s mobile BI strategy, or lack of it. It’s something I’ve heard a lot of people sounding off about recently which is why I ...

  4. What is Microsoft’s mobile BI strategy?

    My post about Sharepoint and the MS BI strategy last month generated a lot of debate; an equally hot topic is that of Microsoft’s mobile BI strategy, or lack of it. It’s something I’ve heard a lot of people sounding off about recently which is why I ...

  5. SQL Server – Hide an Instance of SQL Server

    You can browse available SQL Instances on network by choosing "<Browse for More..>" from Server Name drop-down list in "Connect to Server" dialog box in Management Studio: As you can see from the screen shot, all of my instances are visible on the network. If I want to hide this ...

  6. SQL Server – Hide an Instance of SQL Server

    You can browse available SQL Instances on network by choosing "" from Server Name drop-down list in "Connect to Server" dialog box in Management Studio: As you can see from the screen shot, all of my instances are visible on the network. If I want to hide this information from ...

  7. SQLRelay UK

    [Update: Additional events added. See SQLRelay Just Got Bigger Folks – The King is Back] With the Olympics coming to the UK next year what better way to get into the spirit of things than with a good old fashioned race, a SQLRelay race! That’s right, in October the UK ...

  8. Disk IO performance and SQLIO

    Performance testing  a new disk subsystem  from a SQL Server perspective is one of the fun aspects of DBA work. Firstly, it’s a great opportunity to influence the optimizations and give valuable feedback to the storage team. Secondly, it’s difficult to simulate the exact workloads and IO patterns ...

  9. How Many Log Files Should My SQL Server Database Have?

    One. That’s it, no more, just one. Why is that? Because activity to the transaction log is written sequentially. Adding more logs does not help with performance. If you don’t believe me then perhaps you would believe Paul Randal? If you don’t believe him then you need ...

  10. Exposing SQL Server to the public Internet is a pretty bad idea

    Every once and a while we hear about the nightmare situation where a SQL Server has been broken into and data has been stolen. All to often when this happens because the SQL Server is exposed directly to the public Internet. When you ask people why the SQL Server is ...

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