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Dave explains how to throw someone under the bus without actually throwing them under the bus. - Brent Ozar

Wondering why you should blog and use social networking? Jonathan talks about a real-world use case. - Brent Ozar

Buck Woody explains why putting more of your eggs in less baskets may not be such a good idea. - Brent Ozar

Paul Randal explains. - Brent Ozar

Bloggers - you need to have something to advertise of your own. - Brent Ozar

Wow! Michael Swart wrote a query to find tables that might be related, and might need a primary key. I love this! - Brent Ozar

Find out how fast your storage can go. Only uses FC, not iSCSI, but useful. - Brent Ozar

Complete start-to-finish Profiler guide by Brad McGehee. - Brent Ozar

Worth it for just one line: "You don't have to cluster the primary key." - Brent Ozar

The baby dancing to Beyonce is priceless. - Brent Ozar

Ever wonder how much it takes to put on something like the PASS Summit? Check out the list of volunteers, and this is still only the program folks. - Brent Ozar

Honesty is the best policy, and Paul Randal admits he made the numbers up. But hey, if anybody's going to make up numbers, I'll take Paul's. - Brent Ozar

The scenario that concerns me here is when dozens or hundreds of managers have their own Excel spreadsheets because they're not using SharePoint. A few of 'em are going to hit Refresh every morning just to be safe, and that could kill the production database servers. - Brent Ozar

David Stein talks about his inspiration for writing. - Brent Ozar

VMware ESXi is the USB-flash-drive-bootable version that runs without any local storage. - Brent Ozar

T-SQL guru Adam Machanic is starting a new push for themed blogs on a specific day of the month. Looks like fun! - Brent Ozar

Mike Walsh shows a technique to help you get your users to get to the point. (Wow, that was a long run-on sentence for such a concise topic.) - Brent Ozar

Did this on 12/2/2009 along with an upgrade to the Rage level of server to get more throughput because I was seeing errors in /var/log/httpd/error_log about the server reached the MaxClients setting. - Brent Ozar

Tricky puzzle about SQL Server joins that got me for a second. ;-) - Brent Ozar

Great comparison of the big features for the two vendors. - Brent Ozar

Andy talks about some interesting goings-on behind the scenes at PASS, including one that really surprised me. They had (have) a policy that no board members would disagree in public on their decisions. - Brent Ozar

Get the Western Digital 1.5tb drive - WD15EVDS. - Brent Ozar

Great interview by Brian Moran. - Brent Ozar

Adding disk space to virtual machines - it works in the brochures, but what about real life? - Brent Ozar

Using a command line switch that takes the place of the old /SKUUPGRADE. - Brent Ozar

Great walkthrough of things like dirty reads, READ UNCOMMITTED, and more. - Brent Ozar

Includes instructions on how to build the USB flash drive. - Brent Ozar

This is an awesome example of how you have to manage your own career. - Brent Ozar

Includes examples of the different ways to do it. - Brent Ozar

Another way of illustrating Jeff Atwood's concept of "technical debt." - Brent Ozar