Nice slide deck on replication from SQL Saturday #33.    I try to sift and sort through the MSDN blog postings for the readers of this site and give a 'best of' each week, and this week is from the http://blogs.msdn.com/chrissk/default.aspx; he has posted a blog on replicatio... [More]

admin posted on March 10, 2010 15:26
I learn something every day. Perusing the MSDN blogs, I noticed a cool one by Joe Sack that I wanted to make note of here... it doesn’t appear that Joe blogs a whole lot, but when he does, it’s usually worth reading.  This time he writes about the TSQL command ALTER INDEX ... [More]

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Interesting blog by the SQL Customer Advisory Team This week’s MSDN Blogs category found me on the SQLCat site reading about enabling partition-level locking in SQL Server 2008.  I’ve never heard of this “hidden” feature, so it sounded cool. Essentially what they did was demonstrate a method... [More]

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Great post on creating SQL counters. Found a nice post on the MSDN blogs by Jay on how to create a custom perfmon counter for SQL Server.  Good stuff!  I’ve always wondered about this back to, oh, SQL Server 7.0 at least, but I never knew how to create one and really didn’t have a reaso... [More]

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admin posted on February 13, 2010 07:44
Check it out for some good stuff. The SQL Server Evangelism Team has released a free download for developers that might be helpful on the new stuff in SQL Server 2008 R2. Go to their page at http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2010/02/09/free-bi-developer-training-kit-for-sql-server-2008-r2-re... [More]

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Lee posted on February 3, 2010 07:20
New blog out on MSDN.   There is a new blog out on the MSDN SQL Server blogs called “REPL TALK” that I stumbled across the other day, and wanted to share the link:  http://blogs.msdn.com/repltalk/default.aspx. This might be a great venue to shoot a question over to a member o... [More]

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Lee posted on January 26, 2010 10:39
SQL Server 2008 R2 goodies are starting to rolling out. I was just looking around this weekend and noted all of the SQL Server 2008 Webcasts, virtual labs, etc. that have come out over the past few months; today I saw a post on the MSDN Blogs about some just coming out this week in fact, where... [More]

Lee posted on January 10, 2010 07:09
Stay up to date, or get left behind. I’m still amazed that this 3-year release cycle is still going according to plan with regards to SQL Server and Windows.  I wonder sometimes if Microsoft even knows how many huge, global companies are still on SQL Server 2000!  Here’s a l... [More]

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admin posted on December 28, 2009 07:35
A nice series to check out.   Here is a cool set of SSIS best-practice articles that I found on the MSDN blog site; you might check these out if you’re looking for some tips on making SSIS run well.  I found a few things that were pretty interesting and recommend the reading. http://blo... [More]

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This is a jim-dandy. You gotta read this one.    So I’m once again perusing the MSDN blogs looking for great stuff when I come across one from the CSS SQL Server Engineers about DBMail suddenly stops working (1).  This is significant because everybody and their dog uses sp_sen... [More]

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Admin posted on December 4, 2009 20:15
There is a reason why UDFs kill performance   Saw a great blog post [1] on the MSDN blogs regarding query tuning with UDFs; specifically the problem that was addressed is one that many of us have had to deal with, which is having to overcome the effects of a UDF in the WHERE clause of a ... [More]

This is pretty slick. Found another handy blog on MSDN...Here's a way to create a DSN-less connection in Microsoft Access, very nice!  Where I am consulting they use Access dbs to store static lookup information for their data marts/warehouses.  And since it's a global organization with s... [More]

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Verifying our results.   I received an email the other day from Kevin Stephenson, a SQL Server guru from the Microsoft SQL Server Customer Advisory Team, SQLCAT, who prompted my interest in the “Deleting Data Quickly…” series of blogs found on this site. Kevin mentio... [More]

Admin posted on November 15, 2009 05:28
Nice cheat sheet for SSIS. Douglas Laudenschlager found a cool SSIS expression cheat sheet located on the PragmaticWorks website; found a few cool things there so you might go check it out. A couple of things, they’ll require you to sign up at the site before you get the paper.   Lee... [More]

Lee posted on November 5, 2009 06:14
New Sharepoint book - decent read.  Saw a blog on the MDSN blog site today that pointed to a new whitepaper/online book on Sharepoint administration for SQL Server DBAs. Thought that this might be worthwhile read since every Sharepoint site that you’ve ever been on is slower than molass... [More]

Lee posted on October 12, 2009 06:05
For your reading enjoyment.  I've created a new category here entitled "MSDN Blogs" for your consideration. This will be my review or report, of sorts, of current postings from the MSDN team of bloggers, probably a billion people in the world that are employed by Microsoft. I'm going to l... [More]

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Lots of folks need to check this out!    Just noticed a blog post from the CSS SQL Server Engineers/Bob Ward; if you use linked server queries on SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008, you need to go read this.   http://blogs.msdn.com/psssql/archive/2009/09/22/if-you-use-linked-ser... [More]

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