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SQLAuthority News – Speaking Online at Virtual Techdays – Aug 18, 2010 – Spatial Datatypes

August 17, 2010

Personal, SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News

Spatial Database, SQLAuthority Author Visit

I am honored that I have been invited to speak at Virtual TechDays on Aug 18, 2010 by Microsoft. I will be speaking on my favorite subject of Spatial Datatypes. This exclusive Online event will have 30 deep technical sessions per day – and, attendance is completely FREE. There are…

SQLAuthority News – Bookmark Link for Sync Framework for SQL Azure

August 15, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News

SQL Documentation, SQL Download

I have been looking for good tutorial for Sync Framework for SQL Server. There was quite a bit demand of the product. I have received quite a few request as well. I finally found good list of the link of Sync Framework. The links are listed below. Introduction to Sync…

SQLAuthority News – Why SQL Server is better than any other RDBMS Applications?

August 14, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News

MVP

Earlier I had announced contest on blog where I gave away two MSDN Subscriptions to person who has provided best comment on the subject of “Why SQL Server is better than any other RDBMS Applications?” I have received tremendous response to the contest. I got many responses, it was extremely…

SQLAuthority News – MSDN Subscription Giveaway Announced

August 11, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News

MVP

Last Month received following “NOT FOR SALE” subscription of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN. As a MVP, MCT I already have free subscription to MSDN and TechNet. I plan to give away this free subscription to someone who is need of the same or can use it the…

SQL SERVER – Best Practices for DBA Before Taking Vacation

August 10, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQLAuthority News

Best Practices, SQL Server Security

This blog post is written in response to T-SQL Tuesday hosted by Jason Brimhall. Everybody wants to take a vacation. Who does not love vacation, anyway? However, it seems that it has been getting more and more difficult to take vacation recently. There are two reasons why a person is…

SQLAuthority News – Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft SQL Server – Scoping Tool New v1.2

August 9, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News

SQL Documentation, SQL Download

Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft SQL Server helps reduce business risks associated with downtime, performance bottlenecks, and the complexities of deploying and managing an enterprise-level, data management solution. You can read more about Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft SQL Server in the datasheet over here. Microsoft…

SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Monitoring Management Pack Download

August 9, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News

SQL Documentation, SQL Download, SQL Utility

Microsoft has SQL Server Health monitoring tool, which I have noticed that many of us do not give it a try. Microsoft has released Monitoring management pack download recently and it does plenty of the task, which normally one would like to do. Instead of going for third party tool,…