Dave Mc's Blog

  • Getting the Full Logging Message in SQL Server …

    I needed to help a customer today to read some SQL Server Job History messages, but we were getting that awful 1024 truncation going on.  Happily there is a great fix for this here on SQL Server Central.  Basically you have to tell SQL Server to log to a table in msdb, then the… more …

  • European SharePoint Best Practices Conference

    I attended the European SharePoint Best Practice Conference this week.  I delivered my Visio Services session, which got a good reception and attended a number of other great sessions including ones on PowerPivot, Claims, Records Management and Multi-Tennancy. All-in-all it was a fantastic event at which they treated the speakers and attendees so well.  Nothing… more …

  • I’m Paying for Spotify Unlimited …

    I’ve decided to support Spotify and pay my £4.99 a month for unlimited music.  Whatever you think of the music industry itself, the bottom line is that somewhere, somehow somebody needs to be paid for making music.  There are the recording studios, the production staff, the design artists not forgetting the musicians themselves.  If we… more …

  • Why I Will Not Support the “Yes to AV” Campaign …

    I’ve visited http://www.yestofairervotes.org today to check out why I apparently should vote ‘Yes’ to a supposedly fairer system of votes.  Whilst I agree on the face of it, AV looks attractive to voters, I don’t actually think that it is fairer than the current First Past the Post (FPTP) system.  My reason comes down… more …

  • Simple-Talk SharePoint Articles

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    I’ve written a couple of articles recently for the Redgate site called Simple-Talk.  I know Redgate aren’t in everybody’s good books at the moment because of the furore over .NET Reflector, but the site has some great content on it, and I invite you to check it out.  In a fit of blatant self-promotion… more …

  • It’s great being a Dad…

    I just spent the day sitting in a boiling hot swimming pool gallery. It was uncomfortable, the seats were hard, it was humid and the air thick with the smell of chlorine … (hold that thought) … “It’s great being a Dad!”  I often hear these words from new Dads or parents with young… more …

  • IPCC Funding might be cut … hoorah!

    I’ve just read this article after reading this article on Roy Spencer’s blog.  Personally I think this is a good thing. I pretty much agree with everything in Roy’s Spencer’s post and I’m a big fan of his blog generally.  See sidebar to check out my stance on this … Cheers Dave Mc more …

  • Mad Dogs … I like it … I think …

    Following on from my entry into the world of TV critics … heh heh … with my Outcasts blog entry, I thought, seeing as I was accused of all kinds of shallowness and having a short attention span, and having no appreciation for anything that requires some patience and thought … yeah right! … I’d muse… more …

  • Configuring Kerberos with SQL Server

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    I’m putting this here, as I keep needing it! To have SQL Server use Kerberos configuration, you need to set up two SPNs for the SQL Server Account: setspn.exe MSSQLSvc/{NETBIOS NAME OF SQL SERVER}:{PORT NO} {SQL SERVER SERVICE ACCOUNT} setspn.exe MSSQLSvc/{FQDN NAME OF SQL SERVER}:{PORT NO} {SQL SERVER SERVICE ACCOUNT} Make sure that the… more …

Meet the blog host, Dave Mc.

Dave Mc muses about history, travel, writing, coaching, technology and life, family and the world around us. You may agree with his opinions, you may not, that’s life …