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We are organising the next SQLBits and would love you to help out. The event isn't possible without the kind support from everyone in the SQL community, if you want to be part of the team that runs SQLBits then let us know. We've have loads of...
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We are organising the next SQLBits and would love you to help out. The event isn't possible without the kind support from everyone in the SQL community, if you want to be part of the team that runs SQLBits then let us know. We've have loads of...
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Hi, Just a short post to mention the Microsoft Architect Insight Conference at Microsoft's London office (Cardinal Place) at the end of March. This is the fifth annual Architect's conference and is packed with presentations from Microsoft Program...
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Orcsweb are kindly upgrading the hosting account that we are using for SQLBits. This is so that we can host all the great videos we have of SQLBits, and hopefully do more. If you are considering getting hosting then Orcsweb are very good and there support...
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Orcsweb are kindly upgrading the hosting account that we are using for SQLBits. This is so that we can host all the great videos we have of SQLBits, and hopefully do more. If you are considering getting hosting then Orcsweb are very good and there support...
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Download (FREE!) Truly Level 400 SQL Server Performance Monitoring and Tuning Webcast 3 for developers and database administrators from http://webcasts.sqlworkshops.com . Preview, full webcast will be available for download coming Wednesday around noon...
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When working in an environment that utilises a proxy server you may see the following error when trying to connect to a Report Server using Reporting Services Scripter " The request failed with HTTP Status 407. Proxy authentication required. "...
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I do get frustrated sometimes by the very poor user experience you get with management studio. My most recent annoyance comes when looking at job histories, if you want to look at the details of the step that failed you have to go and find the job, open...
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I noticed that the SQL Server 2008 Developers Training Kit has been re-released last week with a R2 Update. It looks like a great resource for SQL 2008 information and the additional features in SQL 2008 R2. It includes links to 8 videos (mainly R2 features...
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To followup from The buffer manager failed a memory allocation call for 20485670 bytes, but was unable to swap out any buffers to relieve memory pressure blog post, here are few findings that I would like to share. When you see that SQL Server instance...
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I've got two sessions at Devweek in March. ( www.devweek.com ) There is a great lineup and some great sessions. I'm trying to organise a panel discussion/social on evening with some of the SQL speakers like Greg Low , Davide Mauri and Itzik Ben...
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Colin has just blogged about a nasty error that occurs if you have your data and/or log files in the root of a cluster drive and you dettach the database. Read Colin's blog post for more details http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/grumpyolddba/archive/2010...
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I'm in the process of reviewing the submissions for the last TSQL Challenge I posed. There were some really cool and inovative solutions. The prize for that will be a copy of the new SQL Server Troubleshooting book. The new challenge will be posted...
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If you went to Developer Day 8 then make sure you complete the feedback. http://developerdeveloperdeveloper.com/ddd8/feedback.aspx Otherwise we don't know what you liked and disliked. Thanks
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A common error that you encounter as a DBA is someone setting variables in code to the wrong values. I thought I would look into if checking @@ROWCOUNT could help and if it should be a pattern used when setting variables....