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Old posts are like unicorns. You might see them just once, but it’d sure be nice to have them come back around every not and then. This connection might not make that much sense, but face it… there’s no such things as unicorns, so I can say what I want about them.

Anyways, it’s Friday and time to take a look at posts from this week in previous years. Just because it’s old doesn’t mean it’s not just as interesting. Who knows, something here might be just what you are looking for, like a chocolate unicorn in your coffee.

The posts for this past week in previous years are:

• Semaphore Timeout Did What? (28 Jun, 2010)
• SQL Server Best Practice Whitepapers (28 Jun, 2010)
• Let’s Get Registered! Registered! (28 Jun, 2011)
• Pain of the Week: Understanding Your Indexes (28 Jun, 2011)
• Displaying Microsoft Project Task’s Notes in SSRS 2008 (29 Jun, 2010)
• When Did That File Get So Big? (30 Jun, 2009)
• Minnesota SQL Server Study Group (July) (30 Jun, 2011)
• Last Time SQL Server Restarted (1 Jul, 2008)
• Microsoft MVP 2009 for SQL Server (1 Jul, 2009)
• MVP Status Renewed (1 Jul, 2010)
• Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – Introduction (1 Jul, 2012)
• Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysaltfiles (1 Jul, 2012)
• AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS_ASYNC SQL Server Database Configuration (2 Jul, 2008)
• Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – syscacheobjects (2 Jul, 2012)
• SQL Server 2008 Shipping Soon? (3 Jul, 2008)
• Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – syscolumns (3 Jul, 2012)
• Install Windows Server 2012 on VMWare Workstation 8 (3 Jul, 2013)

Do you have something from years gone by that was posted during this week?  If so, leave a comment below and we’ll give some new life to good knowledge.

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