Extracurricular Activities
Extracurricular Activities Recently I presented two sessions at SQL Saturday #43 in Redmond, WA. The night prior to the event, many of the presenters had dinner together at Red Robin Gourmet Burgers in...
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Degree Seeker Week at SQL University, Lesson 1
Welcome eager learners to Lesson 1 of Degree Seeker Week at SQL University. I’m your guest professor for this course, and I will try to guide you through the various certification tracks for SQL...
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Degree Seeker Week at SQL University, Lesson 2
Degree Seeker Week at SQL University, Lesson 2 Welcome once again eager learners to Lesson 2 of Degree Seeker Week at SQL University. I’m your guest professor for this course. I’m a little late...
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Degree Seeker Week at SQL University, Lesson 3
Degree Seeker Week at SQL University, Lesson 3 Welcome back eager learners to Degree Seeker Week at SQL University. I’m your guest professor for this course and today I will be presenting Lesson 3,...
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Degree Seeker Week at SQL University, Extra Credit
Degree Seeker Week at SQL University, Extra Credit Welcome back to Degree Seeker Week at SQL University. If you have returned for this extra credit session, you are truly an eager learner. I’m your...
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Advanced Troubleshooting Week at SQL University, Lesson 1
Advanced Troubleshooting Week at SQL University, Lesson 1 Welcome to Advanced Troubleshooting Week at SQL University. Once again, I’m your guest professor for this course and today I will be talking...
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Advanced Troubleshooting Week at SQL University, Lesson 2
Welcome back to Advanced Troubleshooting Week at SQL University. I’m your guest professor for this course and today I will continue talking about Advanced Troubleshooting. I’m delighted to see that...
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Advanced Troubleshooting Week at SQL University, Lesson 3
Advanced Troubleshooting Week at SQL University, Lesson 3 Welcome back to Advanced Troubleshooting Week at SQL University. I’m your guest professor for this course and today I will once again be...
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SQLU DBA Week – Recovering Lost Data
SQLU DBA Week – Recovering Lost Data Welcome to day two of Administration Week 1 for SQL University. I’m sharing this week with Mike Walsh (blog|@mike_walsh). The goal is to bring you a varying...
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SQLU DBA Week – Be an Efficient DBA
SQLU DBA Week – Be an Efficient DBA Welcome back for another day of Administration Week 1 for SQL University. This is day four, and I want to focus in on a term that I hear quite a bit, lazy dba. DBAs...
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SQLU VLDB Week – Intro to VLDBs
SQLU VLDB Week – Intro to VLDBs Welcome to another exciting week SQL University postings. The week of April 11, we will be talking about working with VLDBs, or Very Large DataBases. If you ask a...
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SQLU VLDB Week – Intro to VLDBs, part 2
SQLU VLDB Week – Intro to VLDBs, part 2 Welcome to another exciting week SQL University postings. This week, we will be talking about working with VLDBs, or Very Large DataBases. Opinions vary greatly...
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SQLU VLDB Week – Index Maintenance
SQLU VLDB Week – Index Maintenance Welcome back for another exciting session on working with VLDBs, or Very Large DataBases. Today is day 2 of VLDBweek, and we are going to dive into the biggest...
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SQLU VLDB Week – Backups
SQLU VLDB Week – Backups It’s day three of VLDB week at SQL University. Today’s lesson is on Backups. Very large databases have very large full backups. Very large backups have certain inherent...
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SQLU VLDB Week – Integrity Checks
SQLU VLDB Week – Integrity Checks Welcome back to day four of VLDB week at SQL University. Today, we will talk about running integrity checks – a.k.a. DBCC CHECKDB.
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SQLU VLDB Week – Archiving and Purging Data
SQLU VLDB Week – Archiving and Purging Data Welcome back for the final day of VLDB week at SQL University. Today, we will talk about one of the big challenges that all administrators must eventually...
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SQLU HA/DR Week – Database Mirroring Performance Counters
SQLU HA/DR Week – Database Mirroring Performance Counters Database mirroring debuted in SQL Server 2005 and had eleven performance counters for monitoring mirroring. There were ten new performance...
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