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Launching Vanilla PowerShell from SSMS
One of the criticisms of our PowerShell implementation is the integration with Management Studio launches our custom minishell. With just a few simple key strokes you can add a custom tool menu item...
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Where The Heck is Activity Monitor?
You're sitting at your desk rocking out to great music, you've just installed Management Studio 2008, you expand the Management node and start to click on Activity Monitor... Wait a second, What the...
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TechEd North America Session Videos
In shameless self promotion the video of the talk I did on PowerShell and SQL Server has been posted to the web. I haven't watched this as I just can't bring myself to sit and watch myself for an hour...
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Installing SQL Server 2008
Our Customer Service and Support organization has a nice blog entry that discusses installing SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1.
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Exploring New Releases
One of the things I like most about new releases of software products is exploring the new capabilities. The big features always make in to the read me and the major articles but there's always a bunch...
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Automating DBA Processes
This year @ TechEd I had the privilege of sharing the stage with Kevin Kline, Steve Jones, Buck Woody, and Allen White to discuss automating DBA tasks/processes. We discussed why automation is...
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SQL2K8 Express with Advanced Services and Express with Tools Now Available
Two Express editions came on-line today. Express with Advanced Services and Express with Tools. You can download them from the Microsoft Download site. Here are the links:SQL Server 2008 Express with...
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Inside The SQL Server 2008 Shiproom on RTM Day
The Edge folks (namely Joey Snow) sat in on the SQL Server 2008 shiproom on the day we RTM'd. You can view the video here. A few interesting things to share. During a release shiproom happens every...
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Where the Heck is DMO?
You've installed SQL Server 2008 on a clean machine and your vb script that uses DMO doesn't work. You're asking yourself: What the heck happened? Did those goofballs over @ MS hose me? Deprecation of...
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PowerShell vs. T-SQL or Why Did We Add PowerShell Support in SQL2K8
The following write-up was originally an email I sent toAllan White(SQL Server MVP) in the context of a discussion on PowerShell and some of the PowerShell community postings questioning why SQL Server...
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SQL Server 2008 Webchat on Sept 23, 2008
The SQL Server Product Group is holding a Webchat on Sept 23 from 10 am to 12 noon PST to get feedback from the community, customers, partners about their experience on SQL Server 2008 after over a...
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Refreshing the IntelliSense Cache
There are cases where the local cache used by IntelliSense becomes stale. Refreshing the cache is easy but not necessarily obvious. There are two ways to refresh the cache: 1) Go to Edit ->...
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SQL Server 2008 Experience
I'm not super big on promoting marketing related stuff. But in this case I think there's a bunch of value for everyone. Our marketing team just launched a new site http://www.sqlserverexperience.com....
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SQL Server 2008 Books Online Update
The latest update to BOL is now available. The update is listed as August 2008 as that as the lock down for content changes. You can download it here.
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Addressing Compliance with SQL Server 2008
JC Cannon, Senior PM on the SQL Server team, presents this webcast where he explores some of the new features in SQL Server 2008 and describes how they can be used to help an organization address their...
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Using PowerShell to Get Data & Log File Sizes
I was playing around with PowerShell today (yes I’m was geeking out on Saturday afternoon) to learn how to access Performance Counters using PowerShell. My mission was to write a script that would...
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PCI Compliance and SQL Server 2008
Today compliance is a huge focus area for IT. Since compliance is written by lawyers for lawyers it takes a fair amount of translation to get it to the point where IT can understand what processes,...
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PBM – it’s like liquid awesome!
Brent Ozar and Thomas LaRock do a 3 part video series on the power of Policy-based Management (PBM). Interestingly SCOM comes up several times in the discussion. They cover the basics of PBM and Thomas...
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Perfect Conference Storm
November is shaping up to be the perfect storm of conferences. In a time when budgets are extremely tight it amazes me that we have 4 conferences to cover in November. SQL PASSWhen: November 2-5,...
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