Monthly Archive: April 2009

It's Saturday, are you ready to vote?

I'm going to try to do this weekly; bring attention to some Connect items that I or colleagues nearby think are important but could use a nudge toward greater visibility.  This week I only...

Negative sentiment

A brief selection of twitter threads expressing negative sentiment over the recent MSDN blog migration, where they left redirects intact for some moved content, but "orphaned" much more – those all return 404, say...

Another index maintenance script update

As I have blogged about before, I use index maintenance scripts from two very capable contributors: Ola Hallengren and Michelle Ufford (a.k.a. @sqlfool).  Sometimes when I talk about one or the other, I feel...

Come on, it's Saturday, get out and vote!

I was encouraged by some fellow MVPs (well, mostly Alexander Kuznetsov) to periodically post a set of Connect items to encourage voting for items that I found relevant but that are maybe being largely...

Working with SQLFool's Index Defrag Script

Last week I decided to play with SQLFool's Automated Index Defrag Script and found it very usable and worthwhile.  Terrific work Michelle!  The script rivals Ola Hallengren's broader maintenance scripts that I use often....

I talked about Resource Governor (again)

Last night I gave my Resource Governor spiel at the New England SQL Server User Group meeting in Waltham, MA.  About 60 people were in attendance.  Unlike the last few times I've presented this...