SQLskills holiday gift to you: all 2013 Insider videos

As we all wind down for the 2014 holiday season, we want to give the SQL Server community a holiday gift to say ‘thank you’ for all your support during 2014, and what better gift than more free content?!

As many of you know, I publish a bi-weekly newsletter to more than 11,500 subscribers that contains an editorial on a SQL Server topic, a demo video, and a book review of my most recently completed book. We’re making all the 2013 demo videos available  so everyone can watch them – 24 videos in all, WMV format only. I did the same thing the last few years for the 2012 videos and 2011 videos.

Here are the details:

1. January 2013: Recreating missing log files on attach (from Pluralsight) (video | demo code)
2. January 2013: Using the sys.dm_db_stats_properties DMV (video | demo code)
3. February 2013: Using Microsoft Data Link (video)
4. February 2013: Linked servers and statistics (video | demo code)
5. March 2013: Using the system_health Extended Event session (video | demo code)
6. March 2013: Moving from SQL Trace to Extended Events (video | demo code)
7. April 2013: Color coding and other SSMS features (video)
8. April 2013: DISTINCT aggregate improvements (video | demo code)
9. May 2013: Using the tsql_stack Extended Event action (from Pluralsight) (video | demo code)
10. May 2013: Deferred drop behavior (from Pluralsight) (video | demo code)
11. June 2013: Finding duplicate statistics (video | demo code)
12. June 2013: Using data compression (video | demo code)
13. July 2013: Undetectable performance problems (video | demo code)
14. July 2013: SSMS Object Explorer features (video)
15. August 2013: Parallel crash recovery (from Pluralsight) (video | demo code)
16. August 2013: Tracking tempdb space usage (video | demo code)
17. September 2013: Enabling instant file initialization (video | demo code)
18. September 2013: Using query hashes (video | demo code)
19. September 2013: Recovering from data purity corruptions (from Pluralsight) (video | demo code)
20. October 2013: Implicit conversions (from Pluralsight) (video | demo code)
21. October 2013: Extended Events templates (video | demo code)
22. November 2013: Using the missing index DMVs (video | demo code)
23. November 2013: Using older backups to retrieve data after corruption (from Pluralsight) (video | demo code)
24. December 2013: Enabling database mail (video)

If you want to see the 2014 videos before next December, get all the newsletter back-issues, and follow along as the newsletters come out, just sign-up at http://www.SQLskills.com/Insider. No strings attached, no marketing or advertising, just free content.

Happy Holidays and enjoy the videos!