Changing Job Step Properties in Powershell

By On February 9, 2012 · Leave a Comment

I read a blog today from my good friend @SirSQL (Nic Cain) where he was talking about how to change retry attempts on all the jobs on a server. [...]

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SSRS Videos

By On February 8, 2012 · Leave a Comment

I posted 2 new vids this week on SSRS.  The first is a data-driven subscription primer that’ll get you up and running with not only what it takes to set it up, but the [...]

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Mystery of the missing files

By On January 3, 2012 · 1 Comment

About 3mos ago I had my work box rebuilt.  The encryption software glitched and it just wouldn’t boot.  So the helpdesk girl was able to slave the drive to another box and copy my [...]

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DBAs@Midnight X-mas present for you.

By On December 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment

With the popularity of the cloud, we’ve decided to give you a present in the cloud this year.  If you don’t like it you can thank Microsoft for trying to get everything in the cloud.

Go [...]

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2 Addictions worth fighting

By On November 1, 2011 · 5 Comments

A recent email chain with a friend has spawned me to write this post.  What I’m trying to do here is help the 2 extremes of people you’ll find in your company:  the idiot, [...]

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The answer is No

By On October 24, 2011 · 4 Comments

There are times in a DBA’s life when the answer is No.  And for once I’m not talking about a DBA asking a girl out.  This time I’m talking about requests we get from [...]

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Presenting at PASS Today

By On October 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I was tagged at the last minute to do my Backup Tuning class at 4:15pm rm 4C1-2 today. Heres the abstract…

 

The Backup Tune-up

Have you ever gotten tired of your 1TB database taking [...]

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PASS Day 3 Keynote Live Blog

By On October 10, 2011 · 1 Comment

Today’s keynote with Dr. DeWitt starts at 8:15am EDT. Click here to watch today’s keynote live. For information on today’s keynote, titled “Big Data – What is the Big Deal?“, see the [...]

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PASS Day 2 Keynote Live Blog

By On October 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Today’s keynote with Quentin Clark starts at 8:15am EDT. Click here to watch today’s keynote live. For information on today’s keynote (“a demo-packed adventure across SQL Server solutions that span traditional boxed [...]

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PASS Day 1 Keynote Live Blog

By On October 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Today’s keynote with Ted Kummert starts at 8:15am EDT. Click here to watch today’s keynote live. For information on today’s keynote, see the SQLPASS.org page on Keynotes.

I’ve already blogged about [...]

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