I wanted to share some news about this Blog. Last week this blog was added to the list of blogs in SQL PASS Blog Directory.
I am thrilled to have this blog listed in it, since the list contains highly regarded SQL Server experts. Follow the Blog Directory at SQL PASS here http://www.sqlpass.org/Community/BlogDirectory.aspx
— Bru Medishetty
I am a regular visitor to SQL Server Forums at SQLServerCentral and see some users posting their question, issues and problems. Some of these questions tends to confuse even the seasoned campaigners and at the same time would not give the complete picture of what is being asked. I saw a user posting a question seeking internals of Transactional Replication and in the next sentence asks about Transactional logs. I was not sure what was the area the user was looking for.
Similarly few days back a user was requesting the suggestion of other users in setting up Database Mirroring and was referring one servers as Publisher (A publisher is the source server / system in a Replication setup), where as when questioned by a fellow user, he was referring the Principal Server as publisher and cleared the doubtful minds.
There is nothing wrong in being a learning IT professional, it is OK to make mistakes but it should not be done repeatedly and due consideration needs to be taken with the technical terminology.
— Bru Medishetty
When working with SQL Server most of the times the example queries that are provided in articles are based on the sample databases available in SQL Server 2005 / 2008.
If you have missed installing the Sample Databases when installing SQL Server, all you need to do is download the sample databases that are available at Microsoft Codeplex Website. There are databases available for SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008.
Additionally you can look at the one of my articles to Install a sample Database in SQL Server 2005
— Bru Medishetty