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Think U Know
Reading today’s Sun, you might well be worried if your kids are on FaceBook, but taking their laptop...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/28/2009
Windows 7 – it’s here
Windows 7 is released today, but I feel a bit detached from the buzz in the social cloud about this,...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/22/2009
Virtualisation for the DBA part 4 – Licensing and Support
To wrap up this mini-series on virtualisation, I wanted to clarify the support and licensing stuff...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/21/2009
Virtualisation for the DBA part 3 – SQL Server Performance
As I have said already in this series the major concern most DBA’s have when virtualising SQL Server...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/20/2009
Virtualisation for the DBA part 1 - Are you Bovvered?
I have been at a couple of trade shows over the last couple of weeks and a consistent theme...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/16/2009
Virtualisation for the DBA part 2 – SQL Server Management
Given the almost mandatory drive to server virtualisation in data centres, what do you need to worry...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/12/2009
SQL Server Security
Security should be everyone’s business, but it’s often seen as someone else’s problem. ...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/12/2009
Microsoft Security Essentials
Microsoft’s new consumer orientated anti-virus program Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) has...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 10/01/2009
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise edition and Virtualisation
I get quite a few questions about virtualising SQL Server and typically today this is on VMWare so...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 09/26/2009
Do You trust your DBA
I noticed a new tool appeared last week from Sentrigo that scrambles SQL Server passwords so that...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 09/22/2009
Britain Works
I sat watching Dave the other night and there’s a bit in it where Kevin Kline simply states that he...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 09/10/2009
SQL Server event horizon
I’ve just got back from a week off and I was going to blog about the SQL Server Data Management on...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 09/08/2009
Vision on – Windows 7
As I’ve said before I’m a bit unsure about whether IT Pros have the time or inclination to watch...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 08/28/2009
Windows plays Wembley 6th October
I am part of a small team preparing for the launch of Windows 7, its big brother Windows Server 2008...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 08/28/2009
SQLBits Goes West 19-21 November, Newport
When I am not doing the day job I like to draw and paint to relax so I have combined a bit of...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 08/26/2009
SQL Server 2008 R2 August Technical preview Installation Guide
I have decided to install the SQL Server 2008 R2 August technical preview (aka CTP2) on Windows...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 08/18/2009
Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle(SDL)
While all of us IT Professionals work hard to make the infrastructure as secure as possible, we...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 08/17/2009
SQL Server 2008 R2 CTP1 released
The first publicly available technical preview of SQL Server 2008 R2 has just been released to...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 08/10/2009
Making MDX interesting
Chris Webb MVP can, to quote a friend of mine can, “Make MDX sound interesting”. I have to say...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 08/07/2009
Access - Office angel or spawn of satan
My first introduction to Access was a painful experience, not because of the product itself but the...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 07/30/2009
Work Experience
A lot of teenagers are on work experience at the moment, and as I don’t have any of my own children...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 07/14/2009
Probably the most unlikely phishing e-mail in the world
I just got this.. Tax Refund Notification After the last annual calculations of your fiscal...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 07/09/2009
SQL Server 2008 on Windows 7 / Windows server 2008 r2
I haven’t had many problems myself when installing SQL Server 2008 on either Windows 7 or Windows...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 07/08/2009
Report Builder Licensing – you do need to
I have done a couple of posts on licensing SQL Server before , but I just got off the phone...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 07/07/2009
Excel add ins for Analysis Services
Excel and analysis services are pretty open technologies so it’s very easier for anyone to grow...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 06/30/2009
Vista and Windows 7 on the Atom
Not everyone needs a flat out uber PC and I have just got my mum to buy an atom powered...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 06/29/2009
SQL Server upgrade perception and reality
I had two contrasting conversation about upgrade to SQL Server 2008 yesterday. A good friend of mine...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 06/26/2009
Try it Now, Morro, Microsoft Security Essentials
It’s a sad fact that anti virus software is an essential part of using a computer in toady’s...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 06/24/2009
TechNet Virtual Conference, Thanks for watching
Our first effort at running a TechNet type road show as a virtual event worked pretty well but this...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 06/19/2009
Web Development & SQL Server Express part 3 - Development
In part 3 of my odyssey into the world of express development I’m ready to actually start...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 06/19/2009
Web Development & SQL Server Express part 2 Install
My development skills are so old that the term 4GL and client server were the buzzwords of the day...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 06/16/2009
Web Development & SQL Server Express part 1 Virtual Machine
I see a lot of tweets, and questions on forums about SQL Server Express from developers,...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 06/15/2009
MDX Analyzer
Compared to T-SQL and the database engine , MDX and analysis services is a somewhat poor relation...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 06/11/2009
Free stuff SQL Server Courses & Software
I knew that there were a few course on SQL Server 2008 on the Microsoft training site: Course 2778A:...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 06/09/2009
Reinventing the Wheel
A lot of the things you need to do with SQL Server may well have been done before even if...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 06/09/2009
Putting SQL Server on the MAP
Usually when I mention SQL Server and map in the same blog it’s a post on geospatial data but not...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 06/05/2009
Windows 7 rumours and facts
The latest rumours around Windows 7 can be found on this Reuters article citing a public release in...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 06/03/2009
Complex Event Processing
Life isn’t fair, Microsoft bring out some new fangled gizmo, but I needed it five years ago. Back...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 06/02/2009
SQL Server BI Community Evening, 10th June, Reading
I wanted to call out the BI evening on 10th June because they’ve given me a slot to talk about SQL...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 06/01/2009
Lying about your age
Lying is generally not a good thing, but as I was ordering something for my neice’s birthday I was...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 05/29/2009
SQL Server Lifecycle and Support
My post announcing the next version of SQL Server picked up a couple of comments and rather than...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 05/28/2009
TechNet Virtual Conference 19th June
Normally at this time of the year the evangelists would be wandering the UK with the TechNet road...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 05/22/2009
SQL Server 2008 r2
For those that couldn’t justify going to to TechEd in LA, you may not be aware that the next version...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 05/21/2009