The first round of the “Name That Caption” contest over at DBASurvivor.com will end this coming Friday, winner gets a copy of my upcoming book. Head over to http://dbasurvivor.com/?p=29 to learn more.
We have had a fair number of entries to date and I already have my top five set aside for people to vote on. [...]
2010 MVP Summit Preview
The 2010 Microsoft MVP Summit is upon us. This will be my very first Summit and I am looking forward to connecting with a lot of other database professionals as well as members of the SQL team at Microsoft. I felt a Summit preview was in order and decided that the most fitting movie would [...]
New Tip Posted
I had another tip posted over at MSSQLTips today, you can find it at http://www.mssqltips.com/tip.asp?tip=1938
The tip helps you configure a policy inside of PBM that will help you to determine how badly your transaction logs are fragmented.
Native Restore From Litespeed Backup
More than once I have had the need to recover the native backup file from within the compressed Litespeed backup file. Fortunately Quest provides an extractor utility in order to help with the process. Otherwise, you would be forced to do a restore followed by a native backup. If your database is of a considerable [...]