Author: Ben Taylor

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Stopping to Take Stock

Featured Article(s) Programmatically creating/updating list items on remote SharePoint server Here is the scenario: You have a client application or Office application add-in that needs to write data to the SharePoint server. Obviously your server is hosted somewhere else but on your client machine; but you have all of the required login credentials to perform write on the sub-site of […]

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Best Practices Tools from Microsoft for SQL Server

Featured Article(s) Everything about Sizes in SQL Server The articles briefly describes about how to find the sizes of various SQL Server objects and also troubleshoot when there is a problem with the space of the database Best Practices Tools from Microsoft for SQL Server Microsoft has the Best Practices Analyzer and the Security Analyzer tools – both free, both […]

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New SelectViews Show

Registered Yet for the Virtual Conference? It’s only days away. [Register Here] New SelectViews Show The show today features RAID and Defrag tips, backup optimization with filegroups, baseline stats and industry news. Also, find out about virtual learning opportunities, the SQL tip, the developer/AJAX thoughts and much more. [Watch the Show Here] Featured Article(s) Windows shadow copy makes Oracle Backup […]

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SQL Server 911 Workshop – July 21

SQL Server 911 Workshop – July 21 Register now to attend Chris Shaw’s workshop – all you need to know about SQL Server backup, restore, recovery and options. You can download the workshop outline here at the site. Be sure to get registered right away – we’ll even send out certificates to those that successfully pass the test at the […]

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Webcast Today, SQL Server 911 Workshop Date, More

Last day for early bird discount for the July 22-24 refresher virtual conference … … is TODAY. [Click here to get registered] Don’t Forget the Basics when Troubleshooting So many times in talking with people using SQL Server they realize that the solution to their system performance, or the information they needed to dig into a particular problem was right […]

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Webcast: How to Hire a DBA Part 1 of 3

vConference Early Bird About to Expire Shhh… don’t tell my boss. The Early Bird rates to save on registration for the vConference on July 22 is still in effect. It’ll be going away early next week – so register right away to save! We’ll be featuring the most amazing content on Business Intelligence, SQL Server, SharePoint and .NET – the […]

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Interesting Issue of Design with SQL Server

Featured Article(s) SQL Server 2005 DBCC Optimization Tips (Part 3) In this article, you can find some helpful SQL Server 2005 DBCC performance tuning and optimization tips. Interesting Issue of Design with SQL Server I was reading over this post by one of our frequent email discussion list contributors, Linchi Shea – he is talking about what he’s calling SQL […]