Brent Ozar, EarthLink, Tom LaRockDavid Stein (@Made2Mentor) started a neat new post My McGuyver Moment and tagged
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MVP Summit, SQL Karaoke, SQL PASSI'm not that kind of sick, any hangover would be long gone by now. But the lack of sleep has caught up with me. I've got exactly 5 days to get over it before my next trip, which will hopefully be much more tame.
So last week was the MVP Summit (
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In Person EventsIn about a week I've got the pleasure of attending my first SQL Saturday. Of course I've submitted some sessions to present at the event, because we'll I'm a sucker for a speaking event where I can meet SQL Server Professionals, and catch...
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Laptop CopThere are tons laptops out there which you can buy. HP and Dell are the biggest sellers in laptops these days. However for the last couple of laptops that I've purchased I've stayed away from the major brands.
My last laptop was an
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Cisco VPN, Windows 7Recently I had the opportunity to upgrade my computer desktop from 2 Gigs of RAM to 8 Gigs of RAM. This required that I reinstall Windows 7 to replace by 32bit OS with a 64bit OS. This presented me with a problem as I work from home full time and I have to VPN in. You see we use a Cisco VPN...
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Professional DevelopmentComing up soon the next group of college students will be graduating from school which means the annual "how do I get a job which pays a lot of money" job posting will being showing up shortly. The best way to get a good paying job is to pick a field which you like working in. If you can be...
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Functions, T/SQL, XMLRecently one of my developers asked me to begin returning data from a function as XML instead of a comma separated list. My thoughts on this was awesome, another cursor getting removed from the system. I'll write a quick FOR XML AUTO, ROOT('root') at the bottom of the SELECT statement being...
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FamilyToday happens to be my Birthday and a regular blog posting day. What are the odds... Actually about 1 in 7 or so, but anyway go have some cake for me. Denny
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Backup & recovery, BACKUP DATABASE, Restore Database, TestingI bet that if asked when the last time the database backup was taken and if it succeeded you would know off of the top of your head when that was. But if I asked you when the last time your database was restored successfully would you know?
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If you tried to download the slide decks from last weekends SoCal Code Camp this morning the links where broken. I've fixed (and tested) all three links and they are all working...
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