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SQL Saturday, Seacoast SQL and January

Where does the time go?! January was an incredibly busy month with the day job, home, a battle with the flu and the wrap up of the holidays. It went felt like it took a week to go by but some good news came in January as well. This first week in February, I hope [...]

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How do -you- (I) use SQL Server?

I was recently tagged in an interesting blog post by A Misplaced New Englander, David Taylor. (dyfhid on twitter). The question sounds simple enough, “How do you use SQL Server where you work?” Of course the answer is not simple. I echo Grant Fritchey’s response in his blog post that it would be easier to [...]

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How to use SP_CONFIGURE in SQL Server

Seriously? A Blog post about SP_CONFIGURE?
I was in a Kalen Delaney’s SQL Internals class (Blog) last week. It was a great class and I learned a lot of great stuff. One thing I learned was very simple yet it was really big to me… A tip about sp_configure that she didn’t even teach as a [...]

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Dear Old Self, read these blogs…

I just got back from a New England SQL Server Users Group meeting. Andy Leonard (twitter: @AndyLeonard, blog) gave a great presentation on Change Data Capture and SSIS 2008.
At the beginning of this week, I posted about things I wish I knew when I started. I tagged a couple people asking them the question and [...]

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