It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re not doing any real work anyway.

Posts That Were Popular This Week

• The Phoenix Project: a DBA rises from the ashes
• Do You Need A Log Recovery Tool?
• Cheating DBCC To Fix Index Corruption
• Building (for FREE) a Virtual Server for SQL Demos
• Dell Webinar: 10 Ways To Abuse T-SQL
• Don’t Get Slimed By Bad Parameter Sniffing
• What Are Your Servers Doing While You’re Sleeping?
• Automated Permissions Auditing With Powershell and T-SQL: Part 1
• Using A Non-correlated Subquery To Avoid DISTINCT
• Using Encryption To Protect Your Data From Alien Abduction

Comments That Were Posted This Week

• Ivan Erceg on Do You Need A Log Recovery Tool?:
  I’m the original architect of the tool though no longer involved in its development. Since last year Log can read local online databases without installing server-side components. Server-side components are now only needed if you want to read online transaction log files for remote servers.

This Week In History

None, the past holds no lessons this week

That’s it for this week. Get back to work!