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Office 365 mailbox statistics

A recent tweet took me to a script repository for Office 365 maintained by Microsoft’s Thomas Ashworth. Now, despite the best efforts of Twinbox to integrate my Twitter feed into ... more

Microsoft Offers Official Wallpapers for Windows Phone

Microsoft today is touting a collection of “official” wallpaper images for Windows Phone that users can apply to their handset’s lock screen. As you might expect, the images are ... more

Microsoft Experiments with Social

This week, Microsoft introduced a social network of its own, the awkwardly named So.cl (and, yes, it’s pronounced as “social”). But rather than being a full-fledged competitor to ... more

Microsoft Provides More Details About the Visual Studio 11 Product Lineup

In a new post to the Visual Studio Blog, Microsoft has detailed more information about the Visual Studio 11 product editions and which platforms the new developer suite will ... more

SQL Server Database Corruption–Part X: Page Level Restore Operations

In my previous post in my ongoing series on SQL Server database corruption I covered a list of best practices for responding to database corruption when it happens. In that post I ... more

Azure Trust Services

Microsoft recently launched Trust Services for Windows Azure, an application-level encryption framework that can be used to protect sensitive data stored on the Windows Azure ... more

Publishing Tabular Models to SSAS

by Mark Kromer This is a follow-up from my blog post last month here on SQL Server Pro about utilizing common traditional reporting tools like Excel and Report Builder with the ... more

'Backup Completed' is NOT an Error Message

I recommend that you set your SQL Server to use the startup traceflag DBCC TRACEON (3226) to disable backup success message... more

Charles Petzold’s Windows 8 Programming Book Arrives: Get It While It’s Cheap!

Three weeks back, I wrote about the pending release of programming legend Charles Petzold’s most recent book, the 6th edition of the classic Programming Windows. Well, that day ... more

Flexibility When Waiting on Locks

An attendee at a recent performance tuning session wanted ideas to more flexibly react to locks on blocks than using the WITH (NOLOCK) hint. more

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