14Oct 2009 by Grant Fritchey 1 Comment

SNESSUG October Meeting

PASS
The Southern New England SQL Server Users Group's October meeting was a bit sparsely attended with 7 attendees. The sponsor for the night was ApexSQL. The presenation was by AJ Dharmapuri who spoke on using DMV's. Barbara Sampson, SNESSUG Treasurer, did a demo of ApexSQL's SQLEdit. It's a pretty powerful TSQL coding and scripting tool. There's a lot of functionality that worked in a very snappy way during the demo and looked great. I may need to spend some time with their products to see if we can put them to work. As part of the sponsorship, we gave away a license for the Apex SQL Univeral Studio. Quite a prize. I was very excited to see AJ's presentation for a few reasons. First, because he presented on DMV's, based…
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14Oct 2009 by Grant Fritchey No Comments

SQL Server Central Guest Editorial

Misc
My second guest editorial is up at SQL Server Central. These are fun to do (especially the video) even though they're a shocking amount of work considering their size. My hat's off to Steve for churning these out day after day. The man does earn his keep. Anyway, go on over and let me know if you have a favorite character from history that might make a good DBA.
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