Posting this one a little early since I’ll be doing presentations all day tomorrow for a Quest Day with the Experts in Boston, MA. You can watch online too.
SQL Server & Tech Links
- Query plans webcast next week with Kevin Kline – Simon Sabin is doing a free webcast with Kevin Kline on SQL Server query execution plans.
- Dates can easily be the hardest datatype to work with. – Good post by Denny Cherry about indexing date fields.
- Lessons Learned: When the Lights Go Out – Mike Hillwig shares notes after a disaster. Read stuff like this before it happens to you.
- More Free Training – Grant Fritchey talks about the QuestConnect webcast next month.
- Imitation Isn’t Always Flattery: Microsoft Previews Google Apps Killer To Beta Testers – Screenshots & explanations of the new online Microsoft Office.
- Deriving a list of tables in dependency order – When you need to empty out all of your tables but they’ve got foreign keys, you have to delete them in order. Jamie’s script gives you that order. (This beats my method of scripting out “truncate tables” for every table in alphabetical order, and then repeatedly hitting F5 until they’re all empty.)
The Junk Drawer
- Blur Tripod – iPhone tripod adapter and an app that has a built-in delay after you click to take a photo – that way the phone stops moving and the photo will be crisp.
- Professional Development: Internet Image – When someone tells you that you should have a nice, clean, sanitized blog that’s free of any personal details, send them this blog by Jason Massie. I’m right there with him – I would rather see someone’s personality. People are likable – Books Online is not.
- Trackin’ Away – Ping.fm now lets you track statistics on your broadcasted links. Yet another reason to use the PingPressFM plugin for WordPress.
- Training Benefits – When you stop training, your career comes to a grinding halt.
- Your Own Personal Development Plan – End-of-year reviews are coming up – time to start working on your Personal Development Plan.
- Recording a webcast for Quest Connect 2009 – Colin Stasiuk talks about the upcoming free QuestConnect webcast.
- Your company? There’s an app for that. – Many companies are going to be competing with dirt-cheap iPhone applications sooner or later.
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