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  1. SQL Server – Creating and using Dump Devices for Backups

    A dump device is simply a logical device which redirects to a specified physical device. The main advantage of using a dump device for backups is it reduces the change required to backup code. For example, if you are backing up to a Network location. If you have hard-coded the ...

  2. What is a Microsoft Regional Director?

    First off, they don’t work for Microsoft. A Microsoft Regional Director (RD) is an unbiased third-party evangelist of Microsoft products and services. Regional Directors are members of an elite, worldwide group of technology thought-leaders known for their national and international speaking tours, their authorship of books, articles and blogs ...

  3. Reading list for the week – 26/09/11

    This week I have quite a few very good articles listed in the Reading list for the week. The list begins with a post from the master himself, Paul Randal (b | t). In How does DBCC CHECKDB WITH ESTIMATEONLY work? post Paul explains how DBCC CHECKDB consumes space on ...

  4. SSIS Lookup Cache Connection Manager with Excel

    The lookup transform in SSIS 2008 gives you the ability to join data and eliminate non matching rows. One of the limitations of the lookup is the fact it requires an OLEDB connection. However, with the cache connection manager you can use just about any other data source as your ...

  5. Small Business Hardware

    [NOTE] My blog post scheduling-fu is weak, so this post didn’t go out Friday as planned. My apologies. This is the final installment of our Small Business series. So far we talked about how to get the software, and we’ve talked about the different options of SQL Server ...

  6. Book Review: Smarter, Faster, Cheaper

    In my continuing quest to not get personal visits from Buck Woody (blog|twitter) I’m making sure that I make good on my commitment to read 12 personal development books in 12 months. We’re up to #4 (again demonstrating the degree of fear that Buck can put in ...

  7. PASS Summit Memories Blog Series – Day 26 – Learning I Was Not Alone

    When I attended my first PASS Summit I had been given the title of DBA in my company for about a year. My company was doing some growing of sorts and we had offices in three main locations, and each location had a DBA. But we weren’t really a ...

  8. Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks

    Now that I'm in a position where I am monitoring a large number of SQL Servers, I'm finding a new appreciation for SSMS. I've already written about the error-highlighting trick I recently discovered. Today I'd like to talk a bit about the ability of SSMS to ...

  9. PASS 2011 Countdown – 2 Weeks To Go

    I’m not sure how we got to 2-weeks until this year’s PASS Summit. If you haven’t registered yet it’s really getting to be time to do that. It’s really easy to do, click on the banner below and enter your information and your neighbor’s ...

  10. SQL In The City is comming

    RedGate’s SQL In The City is coming to the amazing Skirball Center in Los Angeles just a couple of weeks after the PASS summit. This is a great change to see some great presentations giving by some of the top speakers in the SQL Server community (who all happen ...

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