Jan 11, 2013 | SQL PASS, SQL Saturday, SQL Training, SQLBITS, SQLServerPedia Syndication |
#SQLSaturday194 is coming to Exeter on the 8th – 9th March. What is SQL Saturday? The brain child of Steve Jones, Brain Knight and Andy Warren, the founders of sqlservercentral.com the first event took places in the US in back October 2007 and since...
Jan 15, 2012 | Blog, Blogging, Professional Development, SQL Server Blog, SQLServerPedia Syndication |
I saw an interesting post this morning care of the micro-blogging/social networking site twitter that really got me thinking about blogging. John Sansom (Blog|@JohnSansom) wrote a very interesting post participating I believe in the second assignment of meme15. Meme15...
Jan 9, 2012 | DavidP, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQLServerPedia Syndication |
It’s always handy to know if there any problems with your servers before you get into work in the morning. This is why I wrote a program that goes round all our SQL instances at 7am and checks they are all up. If it doesn’t get a reply from one it emails or pages me...
Dec 15, 2011 | IanT, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012, SQLServerPedia Syndication |
Written by Ian Treasure Gethyn posted on the use of execute permissions a while ago (db_executor at http://www.gethynellis.com/2010/04/dbexecutor-role.html). Briefly, this approach uses a role – db_Executor – to which users are given membership. The execute permission...
Aug 31, 2011 | SQL PASS, SQL Server Blog, SQLServerPedia Syndication |
At the end of last week I received an email from my friend and colleague Sharon Dooley telling me her “Lightening Talk” had been accepted and she would be speaking at the Summit in October. Sharon has many years experience in the IT industry, a former SQL Server MVP,...
Mar 16, 2011 | Networking, Professional Development, SQLServerPedia Syndication, Training |
Last week I had an interesting telephone call from someone who I connected with on linkedin.com. On Linkedin, I’m what they call an “open networker” which means I won’t click on I don’t know you if you send me a connection request. If I don’t want to connect with you...
