I’m not a font junkie. I typically don’t care too much about what font programs use and the only thing I notice is if the font is serif or sans serif. Although I did publish a music fanzine many years ago called Fruitbasket Upset with a friend of mine and played around with different fonts […]
I’ve written in the past about some of the ways you can configure SQL Server Management Studio to help you make your life a bit easier. I’ve discovered two more little tricks I thought I’d pass along. Every DBA has a handful or more of T-SQL scripts they use on a regular basis to make […]
I’ve finally had a chance to play around with SQL Server 2012 and one of the nice things I’ve discovered is that it features a warning when a transaction log file has an excessive number of virtual log files. I’ve written about VLFs before and any seasoned DBA will know about them. However, there are […]
As a database professional, I see a lot of instructions from vendors on how they want their SQL Server backend configured. Many times, the recommended configuration stinks. It’s not their fault – the companies typically don’t have anyone on staff whose job it is to lean how to configure each database platform they support for […]
We recently upgraded our installation of Great Plains from version 10 to Dynamics GP 2010 and ran into some difficulties with the upgrade hanging. We’re using SQL 2008 R2 as our database back end. Let me first state that I was not involved in this upgrade and it was our vendor who was working with […]