Monthly Archives: November 2014

Continuous Learning

Posted on November 17, 2014 by way0utwest

It was a simultaneously busy, and also relaxing Tuesday for me recently. I attended Allan Hirt’s A to Z of Availability Groups at the PASS Summit. I’ve set up an Availability Groups before, but I was never sure that I completely understood everything … Continue reading →

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Bucket List Data

Posted on November 14, 2014 by way0utwest

I made a bucket list over a decade ago after hearing an interview with Ted Leonsis, former President of AOL. He had an interesting list, and while mine was more pedestrian, I have managed to knock off quite a few items, … Continue reading →

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It’s Not Just Poor Coding

Posted on November 13, 2014 by way0utwest

We hear regularly about SQL injection continuing to be a problem (it is) and malware causing data loss for many companies. We’ve got misconfigured firewalls and backup tapes being lost. However even if we could solve all those issues, we’d … Continue reading →

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T-SQL Tricks – Templates in SSMS

Posted on November 12, 2014 by way0utwest

There are lots of little tricks that you can use to become more proficient, and efficient, at writing T-SQL. Here’s a short one that might be more for administrators, but I think for developers it’s very handy as well. SQL … Continue reading →

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