Links You Should’ve Clicked Last Week: Monday, October 5, 2009
- by Scott Whigham on October 5, 2009 11:08 AMQuick dump and then it’s back to recording my new 2008 Integration Services training videos!
Database Related
- Top 5 Free SQL Server Tools
- Using a Managed Service Account for SQL Server in Windows 7
- Keep track of all SQL Server hotfixes and service packs
- SQLSTAT2005 – a data collection/warehouse using SQL 2005’s DMVs and DMFs
- Tony Rogerson’s presentation on SQL Systems Management
- Trace Analyzer for SQL Server – free tool!
- Testing Unicode Compression in SQL Server 2008 R2
Programming Related
Sysadmin Related
- Indexing SharePoint List Columns
- How Facebook’s Site Reliability Engineering team planned for new usernames
- An Engineer’s Guide to Bandwidth – interesting read from Yahoo! folks
- TeraCopy – fast file copy
Misc
- How To Be a Consultant, a freelancer or an independent contractor
- TweetDeck – My fav Twitter client
- 77 Windows 7 Tips
- Guide to CSS Support in Emails – for anyone sending out newsletters
- Steve Job’s Speaking Techniques – after a conversation I had with Brent Ozar
- How to Respond Effectively to Criticism – written for “designers” but great advice for anyone
LearnItFirst Related
I don’t plan on adding much LearnItFirst material here but, since these pages were added this week, I’ll add them here:
- SQL Server 2008 DBA Training – sales sheet for Course 157, SQL Server 2008 DBA
- Training Packages and Bundles




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