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T-SQL Tuesday #59 topic is My Hero. Have a read of my take on this topic for the month.

This morning like so many other SQL Server community members around the world I received an email from Microsoft congratulating me on being award the Microsoft MVP Award – SQL Server for 2014. This is my first time being awarded this honor and I am humbled to be a recipient of this award. For my fellow first time award recipients I congratulate you all for the hard and tireless work you have been undertaking in the SQL Server community. Aside from myself and my fellow first-timers a big congratulations must also go out to the many more who received this award again. This is testament to the fact that there are so many people who are willing to provide to the SQL Server community to make it better for everyone.

Well SQLSaturday is on again in Sydney with SQLSaturday #352 being held on Saturday 25th October, 2014 at the University of Sydney. SQLSaturday provides a day of free SQL & BI training from some of Australia’s SQL Server Community enthusiasts.

Kerberos Authentication protocol setup for your SQL ServerReporting Services environment can cause you some issues. In this article we are having a look at the steps that need to be followed to prevent your Double-hop issues happening.

SQL Server Express is a very common version of SQL Server used when creating a website. In this article we will have a look at how you can configure DBMail in your SQL Server Express instance on a Windows Azure virtual machine. The majority of steps have not changed since SQL Server 2005 was first released.

Recently I have been doing a lot of work with my new site and need to do some consolidation work of my old Blog site to have all of my previous blogs redirected to my new site to allow me to keep the links and rankings that had been accumulated on the old site. My friend Bruce Chapman (B|T) wrote a nice little DNN extension – DNN Url Redirect Provider is available for download from codepex.

Thank you Jeffrey Verheul (B|T) for hosting this month’s T-SQL Tuesday party. For those of you that do not know T-SQL Tuesday was started by Adam Machanic (B|T) in 2009. If you feel like hosting 1 of these monthly events drop Adam a line. This months topic is SQL Family and community.

Recently I was working with an instance of SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 and noticed that when logged in using an account that is a member of the Browser Role, that there are some drop down menu items available on Report folders, Reports that were showing the following options being available for me to do:

In this months T-SQL Tuesday #56 article I am talking about some assumptions made around Indexing in a SQL Server environment. Indexing is a good practice to undertake but sometimes assumptions around the benefits of those indexes can cause other issues in your environment.

Every now and again I do a post about DNN as this is the platform that my site runs on. Some of you may be aware that recently there was a new version released on codeplex. Version 7.3.1 – Version Upgrade is available for download if you are running on a previous versions and would like to upgrade your site. If you would like an easy upgrade then you can follow along with the steps I have outlined in this post.

Sysprep was first supported with SQL Server 2008 R2 to help with your raid deployment of SQL Server environments. With the release of SQL Server 2014 improved support is available for SQL Server installations via Sysprep.

If you’re a SQL Server DBA then you probably need to at some stage undertake some performance analysis of your SQL Server environment. The latest Version of PAL is available for download from codeplex.