Archive for November, 2012

Server Upgrade

Yesterday I bought some RAM for my server to double it from 8GB to 16GB. RAM is dirt cheap, in fact 16GB was only $54 at the local Microcenter and I had a bad drive I needed to return for the same price. After swapping one type of memory for another I gleefully drove home […]

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A northwind bak file for you

Why hasn’t anyone done this before? Here is a bak file for the northwind database taken from SQL 2012. Northwind is great for playing around with since it already has data. AdventureWorks is another. I like to have them both on test servers. Anywho, if you want a very simple method of getting northwind onto […]

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