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		<title>Who want&#8217;s to be a DBA?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 12:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve seen a number of posts over the years asking what skills and requirements are needed to become a DBA. It&#8217;s an interesting question. From experience, I find a lot of people seem to fall into the DBA role from a development role. Not all DBA&#8217;s have gone this route, but it seems a good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SQLBits &#8211; The 7 Wonders of SQL</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SQLBits is back! This confrence will be held at the Heslington Campus of York University from 30th September to 2nd October. As before, you will need to pay for Thursday and Friday, but Saturday 2nd October is the community day and free to all. Unfortunately for me, I will be on vacation so I cannot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busy Year!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well 2010 has been very interesting. My company are working away on the next generation of our software. It&#8217;s been busy in the engineering team, bringing on new contractors for the duration and I have been up to my eyeballs with a number of projects as well as support. Thankfully, I am now back fulltime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Failover!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cluster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Failover]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sqlsvrdba.com/?p=175</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It had to happen someday. It happened to me this morning. I was sat on the train and saw a whole bunch of alerts fire through about memory first of all and then thermal sensors exceeding thresholds. An email to the emergency response team from the infrastructure manager telling us that one server has over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeks vs Scans</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Indexes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What is the difference between a seek and a scan? It can be quite a lot, actually! By definition, a scan will touch on every row in the table or index and retrieve only those rows which match the query criteria. On the other hand, a seek will use available indexes to locate the data. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SQLBits VI</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Confrence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[SQLBits VI comes to London on the 16th April 2010. The event is being promoted as the best event yet and best of all&#8230;it&#8217;s free! So register today! SQLBits]]></description>
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		<title>SARGable Queries</title>
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		<comments>http://www.sqlsvrdba.com/indexes/sargable-queries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Indexes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SARGable]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You may have seen the term SARGable in blogs or forums and wondered what it means. To start with, SARGable is pseudo-acronym which stands for Search ARGument. A query is considered sargable if the WHERE clause can take advantage of an index to speed up the query. A non-sargable query implies that the WHERE clause [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Career Focus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Architect]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I had my appraisal this week. It was an interesting meeting with my manager with many compliments and also constructive criticism on area&#8217;s where I need to improve. My role is also shifting for 2010 and onwards and will be moving away from the more day to day administrative duties. While I will always be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OpenSource SQL Server Downloads</title>
		<link>http://www.sqlsvrdba.com/downloads/opensource-sql-server-downloads/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sqlsvrdba.com/downloads/opensource-sql-server-downloads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Downloads]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you are looking for some good open source offerings for SQL Server, then take a look at the CodePlex website.]]></description>
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		<title>New Years Resolution</title>
		<link>http://www.sqlsvrdba.com/blog/new-years-resolution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sqlsvrdba.com/blog/new-years-resolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well, 2009 was a busy year for me at work. The databases are growing quite quickly and a lot of projects have come on board. Challenging, but fun. That said, I have not blogged as much as I would have liked, so 2010 is the year for me to really get the blog off the [...]]]></description>
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