Re-blog – February 24 – March 1

Welcome to the Friday Re-Blog summary post.  The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may...

Running a script on multiple servers

 One of my favorite features of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is the ability to run a script on multiple...

SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): Database Recovery Advisor

Database Recovery Advisor is a new feature in SQL Server 2012 that introduces significant user experience enhancements to the ways DBAs...

The Daily Status Meeting

For the past six months or so I’ve hosted a daily status meeting for a large project. It started out...

Want to write for Microsoft?

Edit: The group I’m speaking to is the Content Team, not the Books Online (BOL) team!
Edit: Updated with FAQs and...

A Solid Laser Printer

I bought a Brother 2060 about 5 years ago to serve as our primary printer at the ranch. It was...

Checking Your Service Account with T-SQL

Somehow this slipped by me, but there were some new DMVs added in SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1. I suspect...

Choosing the Right Microsoft Reporting Technology Part 1: Report Services

As Business Intelligence has evolved over the years the number of tools we have to choose from for presenting data...

Linked Servers

Do you have linked servers that have been created in your environment?  Do you know what these linked servers are?

Finding...

Linked Servers

Do you have linked servers that have been created in your environment?  Do you know what these linked servers are? Finding Linked Servers SQL Server has provided us means...