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Saturday, September 19, 2009 7:24 AM

Perfect Conference Storm

November is shaping up to be the perfect storm of conferences. In a time when budgets are extremely tight it amazes me that we have 4 conferences to cover in November.   SQL PASS When: November 2-5, 2009 Where: Seattle, Washington Site: http://summit2009.sqlpass.org/
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Sunday, August 30, 2009 10:20 AM

PBM – it’s like liquid awesome!

Brent Ozar and Thomas LaRock do a 3 part video series on the power of Policy-based Management (PBM). Interestingly SCOM comes up several times in the discussion.   They cover the basics of PBM and Thomas goes into more depth on how he’s using it
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Sunday, April 19, 2009 5:22 PM

PCI Compliance and SQL Server 2008

Today compliance is a huge focus area for IT. Since compliance is written by lawyers for lawyers it takes a fair amount of translation to get it to the point where IT can understand what processes, policies, and configuration to implement to meet the
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Saturday, March 21, 2009 2:42 PM

Using PowerShell to Get Data & Log File Sizes

I was playing around with PowerShell today (yes I’m was geeking out on Saturday afternoon) to learn how to access Performance Counters using PowerShell. My mission was to write a script that would return the Data File and Log File sizes for each database
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Sunday, October 26, 2008 1:32 PM

www.sqlserverenergy.com

Check out the new SQL Server site !
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Sunday, October 26, 2008 1:01 PM

Addressing Compliance with SQL Server 2008

JC Cannon, Senior PM on the SQL Server team, presents this webcast where he explores some of the new features in SQL Server 2008 and describes how they can be used to help an organization address their compliance needs.   In the webcast JC covers:
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008 4:48 PM

SQL Server 2008 Books Online Update

The latest update to BOL is now available. The update is listed as August 2008 as that as the lock down for content changes. You can download it here .
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008 8:16 AM

SQL Server 2008 Experience

I'm not super big on promoting marketing related stuff. But in this case I think there's a bunch of value for everyone. Our marketing team just launched a new site http://www.sqlserverexperience.com . Yes, it contains the normal marketing blah blah -
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Thursday, September 11, 2008 8:17 PM

Refreshing the IntelliSense Cache

There are cases where the local cache used by IntelliSense becomes stale. Refreshing the cache is easy but not necessarily obvious. There are two ways to refresh the cache: 1) Go to Edit -> IntelliSense -> Refresh Local Cache and 2) Hit Ctrl+Shift+
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 4:13 PM

SQL Server 2008 Webchat on Sept 23, 2008

The SQL Server Product Group is holding a Webchat on Sept 23 from 10 am to 12 noon PST to get feedback from the community, customers, partners about their experience on SQL Server 2008 after over a month of RTM. You can find the details and participate
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Friday, August 29, 2008 9:29 AM

PowerShell vs. T-SQL or Why Did We Add PowerShell Support in SQL2K8

The following write-up was originally an email I sent to Allan White (SQL Server MVP) in the context of a discussion on PowerShell and some of the PowerShell community postings questioning why SQL Server needed PowerShell support @ all given the strength
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 3:20 PM

Where the Heck is DMO?

You've installed SQL Server 2008 on a clean machine and your vb script that uses DMO doesn't work. You're asking yourself: What the heck happened? Did those goofballs over @ MS hose me? Deprecation of DMO was announced in SQL Server 2005, but SQL Server
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Sunday, August 24, 2008 10:30 PM

Inside The SQL Server 2008 Shiproom on RTM Day

The Edge folks (namely Joey Snow) sat in on the SQL Server 2008 shiproom on the day we RTM'd. You can view the video here . A few interesting things to share. During a release shiproom happens every day. Each team across SQL sends at least one representative.
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Friday, August 22, 2008 8:53 PM

SQL2K8 Express with Advanced Services and Express with Tools Now Available

Two Express editions came on-line today. Express with Advanced Services and Express with Tools. You can download them from the Microsoft Download site. Here are the links: SQL Server 2008 Express with Advanced Services (ENU): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B5D1B8C3-FDA5-4508-B0D0-1311D670E336&displaylang=en
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Sunday, August 17, 2008 4:37 PM

Automating DBA Processes

This year @ TechEd I had the privilege of sharing the stage with Kevin Kline , Steve Jones , Buck Woody , and Allen White to discuss automating DBA tasks/processes. We discussed why automation is important and some of the technologies you can use to automate
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