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	<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Software Development Meme</title>
		<link>http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/07/software-development-meme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BrentO</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Jason Massie tagged me, so it&#8217;s my turn to answer the questionnaire&#8230;.
How old were you when you first started programming?
Dad and Mom upgraded us from an Atari 2600 to a Commodore 64 when those came out, so I must have been around 9-10.  I don&#8217;t remember much from those early attempts at programming, but I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cloud is Coming After Your Children!</title>
		<link>http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/07/the-cloud-is-coming-after-your-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BrentO</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brentozar.com/?p=1068</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I blogged about why database administrators should use Twitter, and I personally loved that tool.  It helped people build faster personal connections with each other, and it helped you get a picture of what the brilliant people were thinking at any given time.  Take Brian Knight, a SQL Server guru, for example - I love [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AMD triple-core servers and SQL Server 2005</title>
		<link>http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/06/amd-triple-core-servers-and-sql-server-2005/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BrentO</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brentozar.com/?p=1067</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re using AMD Phenom 3-core processors, SQL Server 2005 won&#8217;t install without going through some hoops first.  Microsoft just published a knowledge base article on SQL 2005 errors on 3 and 6 core servers.
I don&#8217;t usually blog about knowledge base articles, but I got such a laugh out of that one that I just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transparent Data Encryption in SQL Server 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/06/transparent-data-encryption-in-sql-server-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BrentO</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brentozar.com/?p=1066</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[SQLblogcasts.com has a great tutorial about SQL Server 2008 Transparent Data Encryption. If you want to learn how to encrypt your databases, read that article.
I played around with TDE a couple of weeks ago, and I was surprised by how difficult it is to implement.  I&#8217;d expected to be able to check a box, put [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia as seen from my hotel bathroom</title>
		<link>http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/06/russia-as-seen-from-my-hotel-bathroom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/06/russia-as-seen-from-my-hotel-bathroom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BrentO</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brentozar.com/?p=1059</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m spending a few days in St. Petersburg, Russia to visit Quest&#8217;s office.  Sure, I have the regular touristy photos, like myself in front of old buildings:

But what I really like about overseas travel is that everything looks and feels different, and it forces me to look at the design and user interface for everything.
Take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quickly replying to recruiter emails</title>
		<link>http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/06/quickly-replying-to-recruiter-emails/</link>
		<comments>http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/06/quickly-replying-to-recruiter-emails/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BrentO</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brentozar.com/?p=1057</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s hiring market, DBAs get a lot of emails from recruiters that say things like:
&#8220;I am curious to know if you would be interested in (or know someone who is interested in) relocating to Big Falls East for the position discussed below&#8230;.&#8221;
The job description never includes the salary range, and it rarely includes information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quest LiteSpeed isn&#8217;t for everybody</title>
		<link>http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/06/quest-litespeed-isnt-for-everybody/</link>
		<comments>http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/06/quest-litespeed-isnt-for-everybody/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BrentO</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sean McCown at Infoworld wrote a blog post today that said some negative things about Quest and LiteSpeed, and I had to respond.  He&#8217;s switched away from using LiteSpeed, and he had an interesting set of reasons.
&#8220;I just don&#8217;t need the centralized repository in my lab, and I do enough demos that having native [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Airways Hung Up On Me.  True Story.</title>
		<link>http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/06/us-airways-hung-up-on-me-true-story/</link>
		<comments>http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/06/us-airways-hung-up-on-me-true-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BrentO</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to live out of planes and hotels (literally, I worked for a hotel company) but I haven&#8217;t traveled much for the past five years.  This afternoon I had an ugly experience that reminded me of the sad truth of long-distance travel: crappy customer service can wreck your trip, and great customer service is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free SQL Server tools and utilities</title>
		<link>http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/06/free-sql-server-tools-and-utilities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/06/free-sql-server-tools-and-utilities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BrentO</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Garner came across a great list of free SQL Server tools &#38; utilities.  I took one look at that page, bookmarked it, and realized it&#8217;s going to take me a week to go through that list!  Good stuff.
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		<title>Developers: sometimes you just gotta trust the DBA</title>
		<link>http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/06/developers-sometimes-you-just-gotta-trust-the-dba/</link>
		<comments>http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/06/developers-sometimes-you-just-gotta-trust-the-dba/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BrentO</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brentozar.com/?p=1053</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At this week&#8217;s Customer Advisory Board at Quest, I&#8217;ve had a great time sharing war stories with other database administrators.  One theme keeps popping up again and again: developers don&#8217;t trust DBAs and seem to refuse to take the DBA&#8217;s word for anything.  It seems that developers just want to keep learning things the hard [...]]]></description>
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