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17 April 2008 12:26

Disappointing Review.

It's not very often I'm provoked into making a criticism of a respected publication, however there's nothing like being grumpy! I've published a number of posts about baselines, trending and performance analysis and I've been quick...
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29 February 2008 19:57

Only once every four years thank goodness!

I never cease to be amazed by what I discover within IT, mostly these days I'm more disappointed than anything else, I'm not a lover of the let's bash Microsoft about security patches or we should all use Linux / Open source as in the latter I'm sure...
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19 June 2007 14:03

SQL Community is good to be part of.

It’s interesting to sometimes compare the flow of information about SQL Server to that available for other products. I’m currently working on an application which runs on SQL Server but by default / was developed with an ISAM back end. This particular...
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24 August 2006 14:35

sysmaint.exe failed

I just love this message! I never willingly use the built in maintenance wizards or maintenance plans, however the database backups are all through maintenance plans at my current site. Today I had a failure of a backup job for no apparent reason, examination...
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