Category: sql server

All Things Awesome and MidnightDBA-y – 12/9/2010

Here’s the rundown of what we were up to last week Friday night at 11pm CST we present another wildly appealing episode of DBAs at Midnight. Log on at 10:30pm 12/17/2010 for the preshow. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/dbasatmidnight Techie Articles: No new articles on Petri.co.il this week, but you should read Sean’s How to Plan SQL Server Database Files Blog: […]

RTFM365, Week 1

Big lessons learned this week: 1, its’ always worthwhile to go back and reread the basics. 2, sys.sp_trace_create option 4 doesn’t stop the server side trace, it stops SQL Server itself. Be warned. Boilerplate: For the next year (-10 days now), I will read from SQL Server Books Online a little every day, and blog about […]

Spotlight: Jes Borland

It’s been a few months…time for another Spotlight! Just to catch you up, occasionally someone in the SQL community – usually someone visible, but without celebrity status – catches my attention, and I feel like drawing attention and praise to that person. Over the last year, I’ve done Spotlights / Follow Fridays on Wendy Pastrick, […]