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There are several things I do to get each New Year’s Day off to a good start. All of my machines have been to Windows Update today and are updated and defragmented. My DBA toolkit on a stick is completely new for 2010. When I went to http://portableapps.com...
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Introduction Tim Ford ( Blog / Twitter ) tagged me in a post about 2010 Resolutions and Themeword . Resolutions I've not had good luck with resolutions in the past and I think I figured out why: My life doesn't revolve around a calendar year. This sounds...
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"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day." Edith Lovejoy Pierce Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick...
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This year I set quite a few goals for myself both personally and professionally, and I blogged about them on my blog post Goals for 2009. Looking back at them, I did really good accomplishing my primary goals for the year, dedicating a block of...
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The series of posts that generated the most email for me was the series entitled On Developer Communities. I've included links to the posts, in order, here: First , you need a team builder . You can run a company like a user group, but the inverse is...
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Do either of these look familiar: "Suzanne is out of the office and will return December 12." "Hi! I'm on vacation, and may not have access to e-mail. If you need immediate assistance, please contact ..." Or how about this one (seen in December): "I'm...
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Well, it's been an interesting year. I got to teach four different brand new SQL Server courses, and teach classes in four different countries on two continents. Two books were published with chapters I wrote. Microsoft published a whitepaper I wrote....
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Traditionally, the time between Christmas and New Years is a bit slow. Many people take time off from work and, for those of us still working, it's a good time to catch up on all of those low priority projects that have been on the back burner for the...
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I love checklists. They give you a set of steps to take and when to take them for your systems, and help you standardize processes and procedures. They help you stay consistent, and let you know when you should do something, even when you might not be...
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Like Hugo's immensely popular item pushing for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 , Steve Jones has created suggestions prompting new service packs for both 2005 and 2008: #522122 : Service Pack 4 for SQL Server 2005 #522123 : SQL Server 2008 Service Pack...
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This is a quickfire blog post about a feature in Analysis Services that I have learnt about recently – Dimension Cubes. As of Analysis Services 2005 every single dimension in an Analysis Server database implicitly has a dimension cube created for it....
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Speaking is one of those activities where there is always something to tweak or improve. Whether you've just finished your first talk or your thousandth, after you're done I guarantee you'll look back and find at least a couple of things that you'll wish...
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Thanks to these Holydays I’ve been able to update my website which now uses the phenomenal Umbraco CMS. Umbraco is a open-source, free (if you don’t need support or don’t want to re-brand it) Content Management System, completely built with ASP.NET. It...
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When you monitor for performance, you might start in the database server itself. But a true test really has more to do with the “round trip” of a data request from a client to a server and then the return of data back to the client. So I wired up this...
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Introduction A friend and I shared a recent instant-message conversation and she told me one of the two netbooks she ordered had been stolen in transit. They are gifts for her children and one gift is gone, within two weeks of Christmas. Tracking numbers...
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This blog is not about avoiding logging in using the sa login. Hopefully we all know about this, and work towards avoidning this practice. Instead I want to talk about using sa, but not to login (authenticate), but as owner for jobs and databases. I want...
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Vince threw out a question - how did I create my geeky Christmas card at http://sqlblog.com/blogs/michael_coles/archive/2009/12/22/merry-christmas.aspx ? For those who haven't seen it yet -- this is your spoiler alert -- go check it out before you read...
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"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end" ( Seneca ) I spent big chunk of my professional career working on what we call today BI. From Panorama, coding some of the innovative cutting-edge (back then) algorithms, to Microsoft with mission...
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A few weeks ago I blogged about A tale of CHECKDB failures caused by 3rd party file-system drivers that was related to a bug in the latest version of Diskeeper 2010. I received an email from the company that they have released an update that resolves...
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It seems the more things change the more they stay the same. One of the things I used to create on the mainframe system when I started years ago was a “charge-back” system. It tracked the time and resources used by the employees so that we could...
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