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VBUG Manchester March 3rd 2010 - Slides and examples
15 March 10 10:23 PM | MartinBell | with no comments

At the VBUG meeting in Manchester on 3rd March, I was scheduled to talk about Table Valued Parameters, but when I got there the guys wanted something more general so I talked about some of the new features of SQL 2008. The presentation is here and the...

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Scottish Area SQL Server User Group Meeting, Edinburgh - Thursday 26th November
23 November 09 08:40 AM | MartinBell | 1 comment(s)

Scottish Area SQL Server User Group meeting Edinburgh Thursday 26th November...

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Slide Deck - Leeds Area SQL Server User Group Meeting, Leeds - Thursday 1st October
12 October 09 07:12 PM | MartinBell | with no comments

Chris has had some issues loading up his slide decks so here they are! Getting Dimensional with Data End to End Report Management and Creation using SQL Server 2008 The next Manchester meeting is on Thurday with more great information on Reporting Services...

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Slide Deck - Scottish Area SQL Server User Group Meeting, Edinburgh - Thursday 8th October
09 October 09 10:44 AM | MartinBell | 1 comment(s)

Thanks to everyone who came to the user group meeting in Edinburgh last night. We had a great atmosphere and lots of interaction made a great meeting. Congratulations to the competition winners I hope you enjoy the books and find them useful. Rob gave...

Filed under: User Group, POWERSHELL

SQL Injection Attacks at Scottish Developers
24 September 09 06:41 AM | MartinBell | with no comments

No they haven’t been hit by one! But if you are running a web site you have probably had someone attempt one. T his is something that all DBAs should be aware of and take precautions against by implementing best practices. Colin Angus Mackay of Scottish...

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Scottish Area SQL Server User Group Meeting, Edinburgh - Thursday 8th October
23 September 09 10:06 PM | MartinBell | 1 comment(s)

At last I’ve managed to get everything in place for a Scottish Area meeting on 8th October! Details as follows: Your own Performance Analysis Toolkit - Rob Carrol How easy is it to do your own performance analysis. In this session Rob will look at: Using...

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Leeds Area Usergroup Meeting 1st October
15 September 09 09:25 PM | MartinBell | with no comments

Leeds Area Usergroup on the 1st October will feature Chris Testa-ONeill on Reporting Services and Analysis Services....

Filed under: User Group, Reporting Services, Analysis Services

Speeding up SQL Server Management Studio Startup
23 July 09 08:30 PM | MartinBell | 1 comment(s)

One of the tips from the SQL Nuggets competition I ran at the Leeds Area user group this week was to use the –NOSPLASH option to speed up the start up of Management Studio....

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Leeds Area User Group Slide Decks
23 July 09 04:07 PM | MartinBell | with no comments

Thanks to everyone who attended Monday’s meeting. I really enjoyed Martin’s talk, and I'm sure you also found it useful. I’d like to thank Martin for taking the time and effort to come to Leeds and present to us. http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/martinbell...

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Leeds Area SQL Server User Group Meeting, Leeds - Monday 20th July
03 July 09 11:39 AM | MartinBell | with no comments

Managing a large SQL Server estate If size matters Martin Cairney would have the bragging rights!! How do you control and keep track of over 600 SQL Server instances on a global network? SQL Server 2008 Policy Based Management is a good starting point...

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London Area SQL Server User Group 18 June Slidedecks
19 June 09 06:29 PM | MartinBell | with no comments

Here are the slide decks from the London User Group meeting on 18 June 2009. Iain's Slide Deck on SQL Server Performance Troubleshooting . Martin's slide deck on Replaying SQL Profiler Traces . Please check out the SQLBits website for more information...

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Leeds Area SQL Server User Group Meeting 3rd June Slide decks
04 June 09 09:13 AM | MartinBell | with no comments

Thanks to everyone who attended last nights meeting especially Iain Kick from Quest Software who sponsored the meeting, and Chris Testa-O’Neill and Remarc for providing a venue. The evening went very well and the feed back could have not been more positive...

Filed under: Best Practices, User Group, SQL Profiler, Performance Troubleshooting

Scottish Area User Group Meeting 27 May 2009 - Slide decks and scripts
28 May 09 10:38 AM | MartinBell | with no comments

I thoroughly enjoyed the User Group meeting last night, I hope everyone found it as interesting and useful as I did. As promised I am posting Satya's slide deck and my slide deck and examples I will email everyone who attended when I have finalised...

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What makes good swag?
25 May 09 05:44 PM | MartinBell | with no comments

At the last SQLBits we tried to vary some of the swag on offer and the committee actually had a discussion on what was good and bad swag! It’s interesting to know what others think and Craig Murphy posted blog entry this earlier this month http://www...

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Event Notifications
22 May 09 10:15 AM | MartinBell | 2 comment(s)

Using Event Notifications to save deadlock graphs or blocking will help you to diagnose some of those tricky problems...

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