| SQL Server SP's/GDR's/QFE's/CU's... 27 Jun 2011 |
| Confused by all the variations of SQL Server editions, versions and patches?
SQL Services have completed testing of the latest IMPORTANT SQL Server 2005, 2008 and 2008 R2 GDR release from Microsoft... |
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| Resourcing update! 02 May 2011 |
| Over the last couple of months SQL Services have increased DBA numbers in all their teams.
Esme and Jan have joined Team West. Both have come from DBA positions in Australia, giving a good boost... |
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| Connectwise now LIVE at SQL Services 02 May 2011 |
| On 2 May 2011, SQL Services released a new ticketing system called Connectwise. This will improve logging and tracking of all alerts, client requests, jobs and projects and will provide a more efficient... |
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| New "Blogs" page on our website 02 Dec 2010 |
| With a few of our consultants running their own technical blogs, we have now included a link from within our website to make them more accessible. These are independent blogs, not SQL Services blogs,... |
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| New Auckland BRM isn't so new after all 26 Nov 2010 |
| Our new Auckland based Business Relationship Manager will be familiar to most. Reece Mitchell has been with SQL Services approximately 7 years, formerly in a technical role as a Senior SQL Server Consultant... |
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| New Wellington SQL Server consultants 26 Nov 2010 |
| The SQL Services Wellington team has had a minor facelift with regard to the SQL Server consultants. With Alan still driving the Business Development arm and Byron and Alokesh still the Oracle powerhouse,... |
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| Additional Auckland based Oracle and SQL Server consultants 25 Nov 2010 |
| SQL Services would like to welcome to the Auckland team, 2 new consultants. Manjot Kaur is a SQL Server consultant, formerly from Datacom, and Jason Hill is an Oracle consultant, formerly from Gen-i. Both... |
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| SQL Services Hot Tip: So what does the SSIS Service do? 01 Jul 2010 |
| Microsoft Integration Services (SSIS) is a platform for building enterprise-level data integration and data transformations solutions. You use Integration Services to solve complex business problems by... |
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| Microsoft Support Lifecycle - new retirement dates! 21 Jun 2010 |
| Here are a couple of dates in 2011 to be mindful of:
SQL Server 7.0 has an Extended Retirement date of 11 January 2011.
SQL Server 2005 has Mainstream Retirement date of 12 April 2011.
This makes the... |
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| SQL Services Hot Tip: Oracle 10g Query Tuning 28 Apr 2010 |
| Have you ever had a query that was written on the fly by an application and found it to be very slow or killing your database? The only way to get around this in the past was to inform the application... |
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