LearnItFirst.com hosts its IT training videos over at Rackspace and, due to unknown issues, the LearnItFirst site is unavailable due to Rackspace being down. 2009 hasn’t been the smoothest year for Rackspace – this makes the fourth big Rackspace outage of the year. June 29, 2009 – power failures at...

These are my bookmarks this week! Sorry there aren’t too many – it’s getting close to the holidays and this is my last one of the year. Have a great holiday season! Database Related Design of a Reporting System Vin@yard Programming Related  Search Engine Optimization Toolkit from MSFT Sysadmin Related...

These are my bookmarks this week! Database Related Tuning options for SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 when running in high performance workloads Why Should You Convert Your Script Task into a Custom Task? PowerPivot Knowing the Relative Value of Databases SQL Server 2008 R2 gets an official due...