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I have done a blogcast and a few posts around the configuration servers in the betas of SQL Server 2008, however in SQL Server 2008 as released these are now called Central Management Servers. For those of you who have held off form trying
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Performance Management doesn’t just apply to SQL Server, it is just as important in all aspects of engineering. My cousin Stuart is one such engineer, he takes a standard Mini Cooper (the old kind) and adds a turbo and an Emerald engine control
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I hope you are sitting down, and don’t have a coffee in your hand when you read this, but SQL Server 2008 released at 17:00 GMT today! This is good news for all the people who have asked me about release dates as they can now start to plan and deploy
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The UK SQL community are doing their next SQL Bits cubed on Saturday 13th Sept at Hatfield University. Possible excuses for NOT attending would be: You are reading this blog not because you are a highly skilled DBA but: You like my witty style You
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Planning for SQ L Bits cubed (13th September in Hatfield) is moving along but the organisers need your help to make the day successful. The simplest thing you can do is to register on the sort stuff you want to here about. For the extrovert and
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I got one of my neighbour’s sons onto our one week work experience program this week, so I thought I would drop in to watch the presentations they had to do. Everyone was genuinely impressed with the quality of the work, the imagination and professionalism
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Somebody out there is reading this, and thinks that my stuff is worth voting for and so I have been short listed for a Computer Weekly blog award. Thanks very much whoever you are! If anyone out there is of the same enlightened opinion please
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This weekend the Microsoft evangelists were out in force at the BBC Mashed, a hack event at Alexandra Palace. The delegates have 24 hours to make something cool with sponsors stuff, and those sponsors also included the Lonely Planet , The BBC ,
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I have heard it said by many developers that DBAs are all artists, so please can you direct your creative talents to coming up with a new logo for the SQL Bits events. Simon Sabin , designed the last one but it needs to be changed for reasons I won’t
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Why do so many SQL Server people make the effort to come to evening and weekend events? These people can all read so surely they can find what they need on-line. Many already know a lot about the product and have a lot of experience behind
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The London SQL Server Community have a SQL Soiree on 19th June at Cardinal Place from 6-9pm. This is to mark the launch of SQL Server (not RTM!) in their own inimitable style. The organisers have been smuggling swag out of Microsoft and will be giving
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The Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS), is holding it's next meeting on 26th June from 6-9pm. The theme is virtualising SQL Server, in all its guises both using hardware and software. HP and Quest are going to be there and I will be
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During our current round of TechNet road shows we are focusing on Windows Server 2008 and I open my session with a trailer from Maclaren. This shows how they use SQL Server 2008 and I did this because there will be a lot more SQL Server content on the
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So following form my last post, Eric Alsop’s session for the SQL Community last night was on cursors of course. His simple but effective presentation showed up a couple of scenarios where cursors are still useful weapons in an DBA’s armoury despite all
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The wacky title of this post is courtesy of a friend of mine Eric Alsop of IMGroup ; it's the title of his talk at the UK SQL Community meeting tomorrow night at Microsoft Cardinal Place offices Near Victoria station from6-9pm. If like me your not
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