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A blog about Microsoft SQL Server.

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2011 3

  1. SQL Iterators - Making the life of the DBA that much easier
  2. SQL Diag Configuration Tool released on Codeplex
  3. The Microsoft Data Warehouse Toolkit, 2nd Edition: With SQL Server 2008 R2 and the Microsoft Business Intelligence Toolset published

2010 3

  1. New book on PowerPivot for Excel 2010 published
  2. New SQL Server 2008 R2 High Availability Whitepaper Published
  3. The upgrade is done...

2009 15

  1. Test page
  2. Troubleshooting Reporting Services at the Client Tier with Fiddler
  3. Windows 7 RTM is available, time to upgrade!
  4. References for SQL Server Consolidation
  5. Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices for SQL Server Whitepaper
  6. BlogMS - Official Microsoft Team Blogs
  7. The Existence of Anti-SPIDs?
  8. Consolidating Your Database Infrastructure Presentation from SQLSaturday Atlanta
  9. Using the SQL Server Performance Dashboard Reports on 2008
  10. I've never met a Microsoft employee who...
  11. This is how we roll with SQL consolidation...
  12. SQL Saturdays
  13. New security patch MS09-004 for SQL Server is out...
  14. Creating a job to re-index all user databases in a Standard Edition instance of SQL Server 2005/2008
  15. Winter weather???

2008 11

  1. Creating a job to re-index all user databases in an instance of SQL Server 2005/2008 Enterprise Edition
  2. Obfuscating credit card or Social Security numbers
  3. Below Periscope Depth...
  4. A handy WMI script to check for pending file rename operations
  5. SQL Server Load Test Utility Released
  6. Finding Fragmented Indexes in a Database Running in SQL Server 2000 Compatibility Mode on 2005
  7. Finding dynamic SQL code that's not compatible with SQL 2005
  8. Using the SQL Server Performance Dashboard Missing Indexes Report
  9. Flushing them out of the walls...it's finally time to upgrade to 2005!
  10. Cloud computing...will the DBA become an endangered species?
  11. Obligatory Welcome Message and Posting Placeholder