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Yesterday I posted that System Center Advisor had found several alerts for me to look at the day after I installed it: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/psssql/archive/2011/03/24/system-center-advisor-the-next-day.aspx We focused on the top 2 “Error” alerts which...

Yesterday I created a blog post on the Release Candidate launch of System Center Advisor: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/psssql/archive/2011/03/22/atlanta-becomes-a-product-system-center-advisor.aspx At the end of that post, I told you the gateway had successfully...

Last November I was part of an exciting launch at the SQL PASS conference of the beta of a project called Atlanta (see my original post on this topic at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/psssql/archive/2010/11/12/microsoft-atlanta-begins.aspx ) I’m excited to tell...

I recently ran into a problem with one of my own internal applications and it re-raised a philosophical question I have had before with customers.  There are really two sides to the question: 1) Should I set my non-default instance to listen on TCP...

I was helping Bob Dorr out with a report he was creating.  He was trying to get some images and a column to hide under certain conditions.  He added the expression based on data using the Iif() function.  His complaint was that the column...