Monthly Archives: February 2011

Archiving Little Used Data

Posted on February 22, 2011 by way0utwest

Someone asked the question lately about archiving old data. This person wanted to purge data from old tables and was wondering if there was a way in SQL Server 2005 to detect the last time a table was accessed. While … Continue reading →

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Catching Up

Posted on February 21, 2011 by way0utwest

It’s President’s Day in the US, and technically a holiday for me (I think). Hard to tell since my company is a UK company and the holidays get a little weird for me. However it’s a holiday for my wife … Continue reading →

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Backups after a DR Restore – MCM

Posted on February 21, 2011 by way0utwest

If you have a disaster, and you need to restore to some point in time prior to the last log backup you have, what’s the first thing you should do at this point in time? Make a full backup, of … Continue reading →

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What’s Your Code Quality?

Posted on February 21, 2011 by way0utwest

Today we have an editorial reprinted from Jan 3, 2006 as Steve is on vacation. I saw this a piece on code quality recently, specifically mentioning Java development managers and their work on quality. They seem to strive for it … Continue reading →

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