Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Win A Copy Of SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action

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Rod Colledge was kind to give the readers of Less Than Dot a chance to win a pdf copy of his book SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action ...
Monday, September 28, 2009

10 must read SQL Server posts by Ted Krueger

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A buddy of mine Ted Krueger writes some really interesting SQL Server posts. Most of these posts focus more on administration than on develo...
Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Some SQL Server posts I wrote lately and I now have a RSS feed just for my posts on lessthandot.com

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The reason I am writing this post is that we now have RSS feeds on lessthandot for a specific author. In my case the RSS feed is the follow...
Monday, November 24, 2008

With this post I bid you all adieu

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I have posted on this blog for a little over 3 years now and decided it is time to call it quits at this URL. All SQL Server related post fr...
Friday, October 31, 2008

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 Beta and SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack October 2008 available for download

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SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 Beta and SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack October 2008 are available for download Download SQL Server 2005 Servic...
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Thursday, October 16, 2008

today is a sad day

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This was not the way I envisioned going back to Amsterdam. My mom past away today, two weeks shy of her 60th birthday Since my passport was ...
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Friday, October 03, 2008

Help me win this bet

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You might know that some friends and myself have launched a site named  LessThanDot , this is a site where users can collaborate via the  wi...
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Thursday, September 18, 2008

Interview With Louis Davidson Author of Pro SQL Server 2008 Relational Database Design and Implementation

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I interviewed Louis Davidson in 2005 about the 2005 edition of his book. I did another one today about Pro SQL Server 2008 Relational Databa...
Monday, August 25, 2008

Interesting Bug/Feature In SQL Server 2008 RTM

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Someone had a problem with 8 year old procs which started to fail after moving to SQL Server 2008 Of course he should have used ints, but le...
Sunday, August 17, 2008

Only In A Database Can You Get 1000% + Improvement By Changing A Few Lines Of Code

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Take a look at this query. SELECT * FROM ( SELECT customer_id, ‘MTD’ AS record_type, COUNT ( * ) , SUM ( … ) , AVG ( … ) FROM payment_t...
Wednesday, August 13, 2008

SQL Tip, Compiling Your SQL Without Running It to See If It Would Run

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Let's say you have a big SQL script with a ton of code and you want to make sure it runs but you don't want to execute it because it...
Monday, August 11, 2008

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Available For Download

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Get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=fbee1648-7106-44a7-9649-6d9f6d58056e&displayLang=en Here is the l...
Wednesday, August 06, 2008

SQL Server 2008 is RTM

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that is right and you can already download it from MSDN
Sunday, July 20, 2008

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR July CTP Released

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Microsoft® Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR July CTP is available for download In addition to providing support for SQL S...
Monday, July 07, 2008

sp_indexinfo an enhanced index information procedure

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Tibor Karaszi has created a very useful index information stored procedure for SQL Server 2005 and up. This stored procedure will tell you t...
Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Awesome Collection Of ASP.NET Hacks, Tips and Tricks

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We added a bunch of ASP.NET Hacks, Tips and Tricks we have the following categories 1 Applications 2 Caching 3 Controls 4 Database 5 Dates 6...

Interview With SSIS Guru Jamie Thomson

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As promised yesterday, here is the link to the interview I did with jamie Thomson: Interview With SSIS Guru Jamie Thomson
Tuesday, July 01, 2008

I tried to keep it a secret but it is all over the internet: I am a SQL Server MVP

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So all over the internet is exaggerated,I became a SQL Server MVP today and was not going to do a blog post about it. However some other peo...
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Thursday, June 26, 2008

Working On SQL Admin Hacks, Tips and Tricks

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I haven't posted for a while because I have been working on SQL Admin Hacks, Tips and Tricks lately. it is still a work in progress but...
Tuesday, June 10, 2008

SQL Server 2008 Release Candidate 0 Available To The General Public For Download

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SQL Server 2008 Release Candidate 0 has been made available to the general public. There are 2 versions (and 3 flavors of each) ISO or DVD D...