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  1. PASS Webinars Coming Up in May

    PASS has started up a monthly email newsletter for people interested in attending upcoming free webinars. If you want to subscribe and get on the mailing list just drop an email to Blythe Morrow. Did I mention that these webinars are free? Check out the names listed and tell me ...

  2. Good Third Party Vendors Are Like Drug Dealers (in a good way)

    Yesterday I was in full crisis mode dealing with a production server that was not showing love to the users; I call that Wednesday.  Phone rings; number I’m not familiar with, and harmless according to the caller id.  I answer it and get a full press sales pitch from ...

  3. When do two timespans overlap?

    This post is about comparing two timespans and determining whether they overlap at all. Suppose you have a table of timespans similar to the following abstract example: CREATE TABLE timespans (    id INT IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY,    starttime DATETIME NOT NULL,    endtime DATETIME NOT NULL ) A common ...

  4. What does it take to be an outstanding SQL Server DBA?

    There has been quite a bit of activity this past week in the SQL Server community regarding how to secure a role as a Junior DBA. Brent Ozar has posted a number of articles here and @SQLBatman has also been busy posting Junior DBA Questions. Both authors make some excellent ...

  5. How to Kill a Stuck VM in ESX 3.5

    This morning my VM's decided to become schizophrenic and stop opening consoles. Virtual Center showed the VM's as still running but some weren't responding to pings, some were but all had this error when trying to connect via console: error connecting to vmfs volumes Ok, well luckily ...

  6. I Didn’t Receive My Subscription

    Ever have a Reporting Services (SSRS) subscription that didn’t fire off as you thought it should?  Or was SQL Agent offline when subscriptions should have been fired?  Or did you just create a subscription and want to find out if it’s been configured properly? Fortunately all of the ...

  7. May PASSMN Meeting (05/19/2009)

    The topics and speakers for this months PASSMN meeting have been announced… SSIS – Team Development, Deployment and Configuration & Securing and Troubleshooting Service Broker May 19, 2009 3:00 PM - 5:15 PM SSIS – Team Development, Deployment and Configuration Speaker: Dan English, Magenic SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) provides ...

  8. Free SQL Server 2008 Powerpoint dark template

    Recently i was looking for a SQL Server 2008 based template that would look cool. Since I haven’t found anything I’ve made my own. It’s a dark background template that you can use freely. Suggestions for improvements are welcome in the comments. Also if you have an ...

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