October 2008 - Posts

Is everyone a winner?
28 October 08 09:25 AM | reedme | 1 Comments   

Without getting into the philosophical question for the ages “Is everyone a winner?”, the question came up about Finalists­® over the weekend. Because we had to kick a number of entries that didn’t meet the simple rules outlined in the Official Contest Read More...

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Some of you have already voted... for your favorite SQL Hero... the rest of you are overdue!
23 October 08 05:57 PM | reedme | 0 Comments   

Our survey got posted to Connect a little while back (life and work kept getting in the way of posting all the entries). Those of you who spend more time on Connect than is strictly healthy have already seen it and voted. There are a lot of overachievers Read More...

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And in this corner... we have SQL 2008 Extended Events Manager
22 October 08 01:01 PM | reedme | 0 Comments   

Weighing in as a finalist in the SQL Heroes competition, we have “SQL 2008 Extended Events Manager”!! Project URL: http://www.codeplex.com/ExtendedEventManager/ SQL Hero: Jonathan Matthew Kehayias from the US. Personal Website: http://jmkehayias.blogspot.com Read More...

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And in this corner... we have ssisUnit
21 October 08 11:46 AM | reedme | 1 Comments   

Weighing in as a finalist in the SQL Heroes competition, we have “ssisUnit”!! Project URL: http://www.codeplex.com/ssisUnit   SQL Hero: John Calvin Welch from the US. Personal Website: http://www.agilebi.com A big thanks to John, on behalf of the Read More...

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And in this corner... we have QPee Tools 1.0
16 October 08 09:55 AM | reedme | 0 Comments   

Weighing in as a finalist in the SQL Heroes competition, we have “QPee Tools 1.0”!! Project URL: http://www.codeplex.com/QPee SQL Hero: Jason Massie from the US. Personal Website: http://statisticsio.com A big thanks to Jason, on behalf of the world and Read More...

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And in this corner... we have BIDS Helper
15 October 08 02:57 PM | reedme | 0 Comments   

Weighing in as a finalist in the SQL Heroes competition, we have “BIDS Helper”!! Project URL: http://www.codeplex.com/bidshelper SQL Hero: Greg Galloway, Darren Gosbell and John Welch from the US. Personal Website: none specified A big thanks to Greg, Read More...

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And in this corner... we have Allocation SQL Server Management Studio Add-in
09 October 08 08:31 AM | reedme | 1 Comments   

Weighing in as a finalist in the SQL Heroes competition, we have “Allocation SQL Server Management Studio Add-in”!! Project URL: http://www.codeplex.com/SSMSAllocation SQL Hero: Daniel Gould from the UK. Personal Website: http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/danny/Default.aspx Read More...

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And in this corner... we have SQL CLR Measure Time
07 October 08 05:19 PM | reedme | 1 Comments   

Weighing in as a finalist in the SQL Heroes competition, we have “SQL CLR Measure Time”!! Project URL: http://www.codeplex.com/SqlClrMeasureTime SQL Hero: Gorm Braarvig from the Norway. Personal Website: http://gorm-braarvig.blogspot.com/ A big thanks Read More...

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