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Sometimes old stuff is just as cool as new stuff. Over the past few years, I’ve written a few things that are worth a revisit from time to time. In this post, you’ll find a list of previous year’s blog posts that came out in the past week. Maybe just one of them may make you as excited as our little stone statue friend here.

The posts for this past week in previous years are:

• .NET 3.5 Beta Exams Open (21 Nov, 2008)
• XQuery for the Non-Expert – Query (21 Nov, 2010)
• What are you thankful for? (21 Nov, 2010)
• Un-SQL Friday 001: Branding (21 Nov, 2010)
• 17 WordPress Plug-Ins That I Use (21 Nov, 2011)
• Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – syspermissions (21 Nov, 2012)
• Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysusers (21 Nov, 2012)
• XQuery for the Non-Expert – Value (22 Nov, 2010)
• Cry, Baby, Cry! Failing the MCM Test (22 Nov, 2010)
• Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysobjects (22 Nov, 2012)
• Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysperfinfo (22 Nov, 2012)
• XQuery for the Non-Expert – Exist (23 Nov, 2010)
• XQuery for the Non-Expert – Resources (24 Nov, 2010)
• What Am I Thankful For (25 Nov, 2010)
• Adelaide SQL Server User Group Slides and Scripts (25 Nov, 2011)
• Do You Protect Your Passwords? (26 Nov, 2010)
• Cyber Monday: Performance Indexing Book is $15 (26 Nov, 2012)
• Querying Performance Counters in SQL Server (27 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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