Author: Stephen Wynkoop

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On Automation and SQL Server

Get Social! Twitter – Facebook SSWUG.ORG page vWorkshop – Just a Couple of Days Away – Register Now! SQL Server Performance – Presented by Stephen Wynkoop I’ll be doing a virtual workshop THURSDAY – several hours on SQL Server performance. Find out about indexes, TSQL tips, monitoring and more. Check out the site for a more detailed outline – you […]

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Would You Trust/Allow Automated Tuning?

Announcing – Next DBASchool – In-Person Class Instructor: Stephen Wynkoop I’ll be teaching a 3-day class on the things that you really need to know about SQL Server. We’ll have hands-on exercises, lots of discussions and real-world lessons learned. Check out the site here and reserve your spot – we will not allow more than 15 students so we can […]

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What Would You Call SQL Server?

Featured Article(s) Useful Undocumented Miscellaneous SQL Server 2008 DBCC Commands In this article, Alexander Chigrik shows some useful undocumented miscellaneous DBCC commands that shipped with SQL Server 2008. Combine Named Sets and Calculated Members in Analysis Services, Pt. 3 Part 3: Combine Named Sets with Calculated members to meet client and employer business requirements. Join BI Architect Bill Pearson as […]

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Finish the Job

Featured Article(s) Robust print view for SharePoint list views Nearly any intranet or extranet and especially Internet site will require to have a print view for pages or sections of the site. If you take a standard approach of modifying CSS you might be spending days trying to get details of list views acceptable for printing. Here we take a […]

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Don’t Forget to Finish the Upgrade…

Featured Article(s) Combine Named Sets and Calculated Members in Analysis Services, Pt. 2 Part 2: Combine Named Sets with Calculated members to meet client and employer business requirements. Join BI Architect Bill Pearson as he leads hands-on exploration of Named Set / Calculated Member combinations in Analysis Services. Don’t Forget to Finish the Upgrade… I have been working on a […]

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Data to Drive Decisions

SQL Server Performance Virtual Workshop Register Now to save your spot Really looking forward to the upcoming SQL Server Performance Virtual Workshop – I’ll be teaching this workshop and going through all sorts of information from monitoring to TSQL gotchas to indexing and more. You can take a look at the full outline of the course on the site (link […]

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Webcast Today: Database Recovery 101

Featured Article(s) Useful Undocumented Informational SQL Server 2008 DBCC Commands In this article, Alexander Chigrik shows some useful undocumented informational DBCC commands that shipped with SQL Server 2008. Webcast Today: Database Recovery 101 Every DBA is required to maintain good backups of their systems. But what are your options for recovering the system once you do experience a failure? In […]

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SQL Server Migration Successes

Featured Article(s) SharePoint file filtering beyond out-of-the-box Whether for audit or to enforce policy, file filtering in SharePoint is an excellent feature. Out of the box, you can specify the list of files you want to be blocked; not really do any audit on already uploaded files. Also, if user renames file extension – SharePoint can`t really detect the actual […]

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SQL Server Upgrade Challenges

Featured Article(s) Installing MySQL and MySQL-Front tool It is very important before you learn how to install MySQL and MySQL-Front tool to understand what are the MySQL system is a relational database, ie tables relate to each other. The programming language used is SQL (Structured Query Language) used for operations with the database. The tool MySQL-Front is used in the […]