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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 7:49 AM

How Microsoft Does IT - Updated

I’ve pointed out this link before, and I’ll definitely bring it up again. Microsoft is one of the few companies I know, especially the big ones, that explains how they run their IT. We have a fantastic, I mean really fantastic site that you should definitely
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009 7:18 AM

Visio Video (killed the radio star)

I teach a class at the University of Washington, and in that class I have the students create a few Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs). I’m still looking for a decent tool to do that, since the only ones I know that do a good job are WAY too expensive.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 6:49 AM

The Fourth Paradigm

Microsoft Research published a book based on Dr. Jim Gray’s research into Computer Science, called “The Fourth Paradigm”. It’s about 300 pages long, and it fascinated me so much I stayed up reading it last night. I have so many notes to decompress it
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Thursday, October 08, 2009 6:58 AM

Channel 9 – The PASS Interviews

I recently interviewed (on Channel 9) a few of the folks that are presenting at PASS this year – I thought I would share the links so you can check them out: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LarryLarsen/Upcoming-SQL-PASS-Summit-1/ http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LarryLarsen/Upcoming-SQL-PASS-Summit-2
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009 6:50 AM

Free Hyper-V Book

I work with a gentleman here in the Pacific Northwest who joined the Microsoft Server team from VMWare, and he in turn has a good friend (John Kelbley) who wrote a book on Hyper-V that you can get for free –  you can get it here: http://www.netapp.com/hyper
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 6:45 AM

Great new Whitepaper on High Availability

Paul Randal, he of SQLskills.com fame, has published a new whitepaper on High Availability with SQL Server. If you follow any SQL Server news or blog sites, you’ve probably already see the announcement for it, but I wanted to mention it here in case you
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Thursday, September 17, 2009 8:26 AM

How Microsoft Does IT

One of my favorite ways to learn is through examples. If you’ll explain what something does and a little of how it works,and then give me an example to decompose, I usually come up to speed pretty quickly. I’ve been carrying a DVD (and CD’s before that)
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 7:09 AM

Flying today – and a discount for a conference

Well, I’m flying today - down to Arizona to film at the SQL Server Worldwide User Group (SSWUG) online conference I mentioned a while back. And I got special permission to pass this discount code along to my blog readers, so if you want to attend the
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Monday, September 07, 2009 8:36 AM

SQL Server Desktop Screen Background

I was doing a presentation recently and was asked about the image I use as my background on my desktop. I’m happy to share it! Click below for the full size:
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009 7:27 AM

T-SQL Prettifiers

OK, I don't think that's even a word, but the synonyms (can a non-word have a synonym?) are code beautifiers, sql formatters, etc. The basic idea is that it's a program that re-formats the text in a Transact-SQL statement using a standard set of rules.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 9:09 AM

SQL Server Blogs Around the World

As part of my professional "morning ritual", I always parse through various SQL Server Blogs, so I thought I would share a list of those that I follow regularly. Of course, you need to put THIS blog at the top of the list :) - but these are pretty good
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Monday, August 10, 2009 7:40 AM

Idera's Job Manager - Trying it Out

I've downloaded Idera's free Job Manager this morning and I'm going to play with it a little on one of my test systems. Job Management is a difficult thing to visualize, so the Outlook-format this tool has looks interesting to me. Has anyone implemented
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Monday, August 03, 2009 7:52 AM

The SQL Server 2008 Developer Training Kit

Want some free training? I think Microsoft does an amazing job of getting training out for free. If you need a boost for your career, are just starting out, or need to re-tool after a layoff, or if you just want to become more familiar with the latest
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Thursday, July 23, 2009 6:29 AM

SQL Server Management Studio Tips and Tricks

Are you getting everything out of your SQL Server tools that you can? I’ve given you lots of tricks and tips here on my blog, but nothing beats an on-screen demonstration. My good friend and former teammate Bill Ramos did a session on SQL Server
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009 7:51 AM

Replacing the Books Online Search Feature

Some time back, the Books Online team at Microsoft made a very cool macro on Live.com that would search within the on-the-web version of Books Online – a very handy feature indeed, since the search for the installed version of Books Online is, well,
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