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Log Shipping + Database Snapshots == Bummer, dude!!
So, like most funny stories (involving me), this one starts with “Yesterday, I had this bright idea...” and goes downhill from there. Database mirroring is great. Full stop. But there’s this one little catch: it can only have a single mirror copy of the Read More...
Posted 24 April 09 08:29 by reedme | 1 Comments   
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It’s been real and it’s been fun...
I’ve really enjoyed my ~3.5 years here at Microsoft, especially the last year and a quarter inside SQL Server. Microsoft’s a great company that really takes good care of its employees and their families. It’s with some sadness that I leave all my friends Read More...
Posted 14 April 09 03:23 by reedme | 2 Comments   
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Awww, aren’t they just so cute?!
Look at all of them fixin’ to jump in the pool! Heh. Not to minimize the difficulty that they’re embarking on, what with a 20% pass rate and all, but it’s great to see more people diving into the deep end of the SQL Server pool. Let’s hope as many Certified Read More...
Posted 19 March 09 01:19 by reedme | 0 Comments   
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If you absolutely must call a WCF service from inside your database, here’s how you do it...
When I was an operations DBA, this would probably fall into the category of “just because you can do something, doesn’t mean that you should”: Call a WCF Service from SQLCLR (by Niels Berglund) However, there are probably a couple of good scenarios where Read More...
Posted 11 February 09 03:02 by reedme | 3 Comments   
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Updated Books Online (January 2009)
I’m a couple days behind in, well, everything, not just my inbox. What can I say? It finally warmed up enough to get back on the motorcycle... Updated BOL for January 2009 are out there now! MSDN Download Center (MSI) Get yours while supplies last. Heh Read More...
Posted 03 February 09 09:21 by reedme | 1 Comments   
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Samples forum consolidation.
Until today, all of the various SQL Server community and samples projects each had their own discussion board on CodePlex. In the interests of simplification that our customers have asked for in our samples experience, we’re consolidating all of those Read More...
Posted 29 January 09 02:12 by reedme | 2 Comments   
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Sybase loves AdventureWorks2008?
A SQL Ranger friend of mine in the UK gave me the heads up to this yesterday. (Thanks, Ben!!) Apparently, back in December 2008, Sybase ported some of our samples to SQL Anywhere. Needless to say, I’ve got mixed feelings about Sybase porting AdventureWorks Read More...
Posted 22 January 09 08:24 by reedme | 5 Comments   
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Tweeting AdventureWorks?
Earlier this week, the gravitational pull of Twitter got the better of me. Jimmy May emailed me that Paul Nielsen was trying to sort out the gender of the fictitious IT Manager of AdventureWorks (Jean Trenary) for the next edition of the SQL Server Bible Read More...
Posted 15 January 09 04:34 by reedme | 4 Comments   
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DTLoggedExec updated for the new year (and more).
Davide describes it best in his own words: What is DTLoggedExec? If I were a full-time ETL developer or an operations DBA, this is definitely a tool I’d be using every day. Grab yours today from CodePlex: http://www.codeplex.com/DTLoggedExec/ Read More...
Posted 07 January 09 12:11 by reedme | 1 Comments   
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Now with more open and soon with more source!
Over the holidays, the SQL Server community & samples test team in China has been migrating all of our open product samples bugs out of our internal VSTS bug tracking database and into the VSTS database which backs the CodePlex TFS system. There are Read More...
Posted 26 December 08 11:24 by reedme | 1 Comments   
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Who are you and what do you want with my data?
If you’ve got data, there are probably people who want to use it, analyze it, do things with it... that you never imagined and possibly don’t want them to. “Those people” might even be government agents. Who can put you in jail. If you’re not careful Read More...
Posted 20 November 08 09:04 by reedme | 1 Comments   
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AdventureWorks2010, anyone?
We’re doing planning work for SQL Server Kilimanjaro and the next SQL Server wave that follows it, which means product samples, community projects and AdventureWorks. Some people have suggested doing away with AdventureWorks in favor of something new, Read More...
Posted 30 October 08 02:10 by reedme | 4 Comments   
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Get your beta on! SQL Server 2005 SP3 Beta
No new features. Lots of good fixes rolled up in one package. Download details: SQL Server 2005 SP3 Beta We don’t call them “service packs” inside SQL Server anymore, but it would seem that a lot of people have a Linus’ blanket reaction to the term, so Read More...
Posted 29 October 08 11:07 by reedme | 0 Comments   
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Simplifying AdventureWorks setup
FYI, we’re actively working on improving the setup experience for the SQL Server 2008 sample databases (aka AdventureWorks). We’ve heard your feedback and we’re acting on it. Here are some of the salient points you’ll see for the Halloween update (Samples Read More...
Posted 21 October 08 02:28 by reedme | 1 Comments   
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SQL Server Samples in the News and Print
The humorous old adage (which my friends in PR righteously deplore) is that "There's no such thing as bad press, as long as they spell your name right." SQL Server 2008: First Impressions Desperately Seeking Samples SQL Server 2008 Transact-SQL Read More...
Posted 24 September 08 04:15 by reedme | 1 Comments   
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