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Archive for May, 2011
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A curious case of a missing configuration group.
Posted on May 13, 2011 | No CommentsTweetG’day, I recently received a brand new windows 7 virtual machine for my every day work use and one of the first things that I did was install SQL SERVER 2008 developer... -
Catalog view or compatibility view?
Posted on May 9, 2011 | No CommentsTweetG’day, The recommended way to access SQL SERVER metadata is through the catalog views. The challenge is to be able to distinguish between the catalog views and the compatibility views,... -
Certifications – and a survey.
Posted on May 6, 2011 | No CommentsTweetG’day, There’s a lot of mixed opinions around about certifications. Are they worth while, do they mean anything, do employers value them and the like. I’m personally in the “certifications... -
How do you create or update stored procedures.
Posted on May 4, 2011 | No CommentsTweetG’day, Running object creation scripts into other environments is a big part of most DBA’s work – especially when a new system is being built in an agile manner. Stored... -
Meme Monday – “I got 99 problems but a disk ain’t one”
Posted on May 3, 2011 | No CommentsTweetG’day, Apparently “Meme Monday” was started by Thomas Larock (Blog | Twitter) , as a way for getting people writing. I haven’t been tagged or anything, I just thought that... -
Checkpoints and the Lazy writer
Posted on May 2, 2011 | 1 CommentTweetHi, Both the lazy writer process and a checkpoint both push in-memory pages out to disk, however that’s where the similarity ends. The reason that I’m blogging about that is because I...
