Featured Article(s) Sharepoint Installation First of a multipart series covering both new installations of WSS 3/MOSS 2007 and also upgrade paths from WSS 2 to either of the above versions Featured Video: Understanding Indexes and Index Fragmentation How to look at your indexes, how to understand them and how to apply them. We’ll look into fragmentation and how you can […]

2 Days Left to Register Chris Shaw – SQL Server 911 – In-depth (4 hrs!) virtual workshop You can find out all you need to know about disaster recovery planning, what to do when things go wrong on restores, your options and best practices. There’s even a certificate option on successful completion of the course quiz. [ Register Here ] […]

Featured Article(s) Never Stop Learning A month or so ago I attended a local User Group meeting. The meeting brought a number of things to mind on how we approach hardware. I have seen many times that in place of reviewing the code for performance tuning options that we purchase hardware. Then end result is that I believe we mask […]

Webcast Today! How to Hire a DBA Part 2 of 3 Are you looking to hire a DBA? This 3 part series will help you in what you should look for. In Part two of this series we will talk about reviewing a resume. Presented by: Chris Shaw > Register Now > 7/15/2009 at 12:00pm Noon Pacific Featured Article(s) Using […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Webcast Tomorrow: How to Hire a DBA Part 1 of 3 Are you looking to hire a DBA? This 3 part series will help you in what you should look for. In Part one of this series we will talk about defining the role. Presented by: Chris Shaw > Register Now > 7/8/2009 at 12:00pm Noon Pacific Featured Article(s) Adding […]