Month: September 2009

Meet PASS Board Candidate Jeremiah Peschka

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The PASS Board of Directors election starts on October 12th, and we’ve got four really well-qualified candidates to choose from: Brian Moran Jeremiah Peschka (Blog – Twitter) Matt Morollo (Twitter) Tom LaRock (Blog – Twitter) You can read their bios at the PASS Candidate List, and they’re good, but I wanted more.  I emailed each…
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What’s On My Bookshelf?

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After I unpacked my new home office in Chicago, I was struck by the oddball contents of my bookshelf.  You might get a kick out of the list of books I’ve kept around over the years despite moving from state to state.  I’m merciless about discarding books as soon as I’m done reading them, so…
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Another Giveaway: Keyboards and Mice

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Dayton Brown and Netster won themselves 120gb USB hard drives a couple of weeks ago in my Clean Brent’s Office Contest, but now that I’m settling into my new home office in Chicago, I’m finding even more unneeded gear lying around. If Only I Had Something Insightful to Type I have no clue how this…
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Why Are You Backing Up?

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We focus so much on the fine-grained details of exactly when and where we’re backing up our servers.  Sometimes it helps to take a quick step back and ask what we’re trying to protect ourselves, because it’ll help us do a better job of designing a recovery strategy. Dude, Where's My Datacenter? From small problem…
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What Presentations Should I Give?

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I’m doing another Quest Day with the Experts on October 9th at the Quest Software home office in Aliso Viejo, California, and it’ll be simulcast over the intertubes.  Which two of these presentations would you like to see?  They’re all 200-300 level: [poll id=”4″] The poll will close on Friday, September 18th and I’ll pick…
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Know When to Call Professionals For Help

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I used to have red-eared slider turtles, and I’ve got a few web pages about how to take care of them.  Every now and then, I get a comment like this: My turtle is bleeding and he hasn’t eaten in a week.  Should I be concerned? Credibility Fail Uh, hello.  If the turtle was your…
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Links for 24 Hours of PASS #24hop

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Having problems getting in with your links?  Here’s the links for the rest of the day: 24 Hours of PASS: Session 17 (PD) – Building a Better Blog (Steve Jones) – Noon EST 24 Hours of PASS: Session 18 (Dev) – Building Flexible Data Services for the Web Using the ADO .NET Data Services Framework…
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SQL Server 2008 R2 Frequently Asked Questions

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Got questions about the new features in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2?  Can’t wait for R2’s release date?  Here’s the answers I’ve been giving out most often to database administrators wondering about the changes in SQL Server 2008 R2 vs SQL Server 2008. What will be the SQL Server 2008 R2 release date? SQL Server…
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