MidnightDBA Blogcast

This is Sean's fourth ever MidnightDBA Drill - download and drill yourself on trace flags like never before!

This is Sean's third ever MidnightDBA Drill - download and drill yourself on integer datatypes like never before!

This is Sean's second ever MidnightDBA Drill - download and drill yourself on System Database IDs like never before!

This is Sean's first ever MidnightDBA Drill - download and drill yourself on login error states like never before!

I play a couple of clips from our webshow and the PASS interviews, and I read about my new project RTFM365. Eric Humphries, our guest for the Webshow to be published 12/14 (ish), has a blog here: http://lotsahelp.blogspot.com/ My weekly wrapup of all things MidnightDBA-y is here: http://www.midnightdba.com/Jen/2010/12/all-things-awesome-and-midnightdba-y-1222010/ The interview with Grant Fritchey is here: http://midnightdba.itbookworm.com/VidPages/DBAsAtMidnightGrantFritchey/DBAsAtMidnightGrantFritchey.aspx Grant's blog is www.ScaryDBA.com The new blog coming out is Tip: Schema Qualify Objects in SPs: http://www.midnightdba.com/Jen/2010/12/tip-schema-qualify-objects-in-sps/

I introduce season 2 of the MidnightDBA blogcast, talk over recent blogs and articles, and read my blog on new features in Denali. The SSRS article I reference is my 'How to Create and Edit a Report in SQL Server Reporting Services' at http://www.petri.co.il/sql-reporting-services-create-edit-reports.htm My Un-SQL Friday Roundup is here: http://www.midnightdba.com/Jen/2010/11/roundup-un-sql-001-branding/ Sean's Un-SQL Friday blog is at http://www.midnightdba.com/DBARant/?p=483 Adam Machanic's is here: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/adam_machanic/archive/2010/11/19/un-sql-friday-don-t-be-a-port-in-the-storm.aspx And the Denali blog is here: http://www.midnightdba.com/Jen/2010/11/whats-new-in-sql-server-denali-ctp1/

Today I read Sean's March 31st blog on Powershell. Check out the blog post for the Powershell script: http://www.midnightdba.com/DBARant/?p=3

It's been a long while since I made a blogcast, so we hit the highlights of my recent blogs.

Sean and I have a quick talk on SQLSat35, and I read a blog by Evil Jen.

Blog reading and upcoming events. Brad McGehee was kind enough to say yes when I asked to read this funny and useful blog, so I finally make good! Link to the Question of the Month: http://tinyurl.com/yad66l Link to this blog: http://tinyurl.com/y6eqy8n

I read Sean's blog on his "SSIS architecture: Tips for package design" PDF, and also the finalists from the MidnightDBA SQL Server Musical Contest.

I read my intro blog and my SQLPerspectives blog (http://sqlperspectives.wordpress.com), reviewing a chapter of MVP Deep Dives.

Sean and I talk user groups and SQL Saturday sessions.

Today we read a December 09 blog, Brief Intro to Indexes and INCLUDE

I read three blogs from Sean's DBARant.Blogspot.com

Here's the latest Code Sin: Coding Lonely.

Here's the latest from Sean's Database Underground blog on Infoworld.com, "Just call it an internal DoS attack". (http://infoworld.com/d/data-management/just-call-it-internal-dos-attack-834)

I start my new job tomorrow, so let's read Sleepless in the Server Room (or, I Love You, I QUIT!).

I'm feeling nostalgic for the good ole days of November 2009, so here's my 11/6/09 hit "SQL Pass Summit Postgame - What I learned at summer camp".

Here are two of Sean's DBA Rants (see http://DBARant.Blogspot.com), Experts are Sharp, and The Best DR Plan in Existence.

Today I read a short blog from Sean titled "Flatline", prefaced by a couple of notes on the January NTSSUG meeting, and SQL Saturday Dallas.

Today we make some announcements, and read three quick blogs from the girly MidnightDBA (just to clarify, that's Jen) about the SSIS package rename dialog box, and "When do you become 'Somebody'?"

In our first guest-blogged blogcast, I read excerpts from Jeremiah Peschka's latest greatest work. His blog can be found at http://www.facility9.com Thanks @peschkaj!

Today we read my SQLServerPedia article, "The Server-Side Trace: What, Why, and How". Check out http://www.SQLServerPedia.com, especially the blogroll!

Jen reads Sean's DBARant blog from August 2005, titled "The Database Religion". This is gonna be good, I can tell.

In our premiere blogcast, Jen reads her first tech blog entry from August 2009: "Case Study: Rebuilding Indexes".