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  1. PASS DBA Virtual Chapter: Replication with Hilary Cotter

    I’m pleased to announce that this Wednesday April 11th 2012 Hilary Cotter will be presenting for the PASS DBA Virtual Chapter on SQL Server Replication. Replication is a powerful and flexible data distribution solution that has become one of the more mature features in SQL Server. Come listen to ...

  2. Why Is My Virtual SQL Server So Slow?

    After we virtualize SQL Server, troubleshooting performance becomes a lot tougher. There’s more moving parts like shared storage and VMware, and we DBAs don’t usually get access to those tools to find out what’s going on. So what’s a DBA to do? Wednesday, I’m doing ...

  3. Shameless plug for help to get more space on Dropbox :)

    I use Dropbox which is a great free tool that allows you to have 2 GB of free space that is stored in the cloud. Recently they allowed me to get more space and also yourself an extra 500 MB until you reach 16 GB. Invite your friends to Dropbox ...

  4. April #Meme15 Assignment

    Before the advent of the modern “Social Network”, many of us were already connected through tools that had much less immediate gratification. We used websites, e-mails, forums, and blogs. As social networks have grown, these older tools have only become more important, versus less important. Many social networks get us ...

  5. Upgrading MS Ops Manager & SQL Server

    Something which has come up when upgrading Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 to 2012 is that there is an extra step which isn't really documented in the Ops Manager upgrade guide. You see when upgrading from Ops Manager 2007 to 2012 you also need to upgrade the SQL Server to ...

  6. SSAS development quick tip

    When creating a new cube in SSAS, you are frequently making changes that cause the whole cube to reprocess when you use the “Deploy” option (such as structure changes or aggregation design changes). This means a lot of sitting around and waiting for the cube to process if you have ...

  7. April PASSMN Meeting–SQL 2012 and Apply T-SQL Magic

    Sponsor: Techfuse 2012 – May 16th & 17th Date: April 17, 2012 Time: 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM Location: 3601 West 76th Street, Suite 600 Edina, MN 55437 Live Meeting: URL: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=F863BG&role=attend&pw=44%2Cj5N%40t7 Meeting ID: F863BG Entry Code ...

  8. Database Engine Tuning Advisor Is Just That – An Advisor

    A couple years ago, I was interviewing for a new job and one of the interviewers I met with asked me how I would go about tuning a query to improve performance. One of the options I mentioned was to run the query through the Database Engine Tuning Advisor, although ...

  9. Quick Reference: How Do I Read an Excel XSLM (Macro-Enabled) File in SSIS?

    Excel 2010 (and presumably the next version of Excel) have taken some security precautions with regards to macros in Excel files. If a spreadsheet has macros in it, you can't save it as an XLSX. Excel forces you to save it with an extension of XLSM, indicating that the ...

  10. Instance Wide Wait Stats

    Over the last many weeks we have written quite a few blog post about query debugging, using Extended Events, Blocking sampling and other techniques. Today we are taking a few steps back, and demonstrate how you could start looking at performance problems on a system that you don’t know ...

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