Links You Should’ve Clicked Last Week: Monday, October 5, 2009

Quick 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

• Programming Language Classification Chart
• Five Myths About Managed Code

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