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Free SQL Training Online – Wednesday 10/21/09

by Mike Walsh on 17. Oct, 2009 in Best Practices, Learn From Mistakes, Quest Connect, Syndicate, training

Where?
Quest Connect is an online series of webcasts on various topics. Some are pre-recorded (like the session that I did.. more on that later…). They have web casts on a variety of topics, not just SQL. You can look at the on demand topic listing here to see all the chats that will be available [...]

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A Picture That Says, “Don’t Shrink!” (and other things…)

by Mike Walsh on 19. Jun, 2009 in Best Practices, Learn From Mistakes, Pet Peeve, Syndicate, Troubleshooting

So I wrote a lot of posts around shrinking (Here, here, here). Some of my posts were turned into a wiki article on SQLServerPedia. I thought I was done posting about this but one more.
I talked about why we shouldn’t do it on a regular basis. Why it should really be reserved for use in [...]

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