Photo credit – JStove

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:

• Incrementing Values (14 Nov, 2007)
• SQLServerPedia Awards Winner (15 Nov, 2010)
• Don’t Forget To Vote (16 Nov, 2008)
• The SQL Server MCM Training Has Changed (16 Nov, 2010)
• SSWUG SSIS Expo Event This Friday (16 Nov, 2011)
• Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – syslogins (16 Nov, 2012)
• Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysmembers (16 Nov, 2012)
• Upgrading to SQL Server 2008 (17 Nov, 2008)
• I Don’t Want To Use the Object Browser (sp_helptext) (18 Nov, 2008)
• If You Don’t Know Where You’ve Been (18 Nov, 2009)
• XQuery for the Non-Expert – Terminology (18 Nov, 2010)
• SSWUG SSIS Expo Slides and Scripts (18 Nov, 2011)
• XQuery for the Non-Expert – XMLNAMESPACE (19 Nov, 2010)
• Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysmessages (19 Nov, 2012)
• Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysoledbusers (19 Nov, 2012)
• Cumulative update package 2 for SQL Server 2008 (20 Nov, 2008)
• XQuery for the Non-Expert – Nodes (20 Nov, 2010)
• Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysopentapes (20 Nov, 2012)
• Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – systypes (20 Nov, 2012)

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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