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  1. Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate – SQL Server 2008 Core / Windows Server® 2008

    Yesterday, I received two mails from the Microsoft Certification Program Team about two new certification earned: 1. Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate – SQL Server 2008 Core 2. Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate – Windows Server® 2008 These also reflected on my transcript today. These two new certifications are awarded due to ...

  2. Self-Service BI Mapping with Microsoft Research’s Layerscape–Part 2

    In my last post I showed how to load data from Excel into Layerscape, the new data visualisation tool from Microsoft Research; in the post before that I showed how to load UK weather data from Windows Azure Datamarket into PowerPivot. Now let’s take that weather data and plot ...

  3. SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)

    You may or may not already have heard about it, but the next version of our favorite database, SQL Server 2012, ships with a client tool called SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT). Just like the BIDS was actually Visual Studio 2008 (or 2005 if you’re long enough in the ...

  4. SQL Server 2012: Certification Upgrade Info

    As a follow-up to my SQL Server 2012: New Certification Info, Microsoft Learning has announced the certification tracks for the SQL Server 2012 exams. There are new names for the certifications: Your first step is to achieve Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA). If you are new to certification you must ...

  5. cannot drop database because it is currently in use

    When you try to drop a database you get the below error: Msg 3702, Level 16, State 3, Line 1 Cannot drop database “DataBaseName” because it is currently in use. How to drop database when this error occurs? 1. Check if you are using the database you are trying to ...

  6. Storage and Virtualization in Poland May 24

    Come and join me in Poland, May 24th, 2012 (24-05-2012) at SQL Day 2012. During this day long session we will be looking at storage and virtualization from a DBA perspective with the end goal of the day being to improve the your knowledge of enterprise storage and enterprise virtualization ...

  7. HOW TO: Backup SQL Server 2008 with Compression

    This is one of the many new features that I really enjoy with Microsoft SQL Server. Backup compression was introduced with SQL Server 2008 and in my opinion, it is a must tool for most SQL Database administrators. It is especially true when you experience disk space problems. In addition ...

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