I.                    Introduction

A little while ago, my wonderful wife Renee got a Solid State Drive (SSD) for me.  Being a DBA, one of my first thoughts was to wonder what kind of effect this would have on database performance, since I use my home computer for a lot of testing… Read more

My article Plotting SQL Server Data for Data Visualization is up on MSSQLTips now and discusses using PyQt and Matplotlib to plot data from SQL Server.

My article Single User Performance of SQLite v SQL Server was posted yesterday on SQLServerCentral.  This one does a comparison of the performance of… Read more

1. I.              Introduction

I recently submitted my entry for a writing competition as part of my continuing education.  While I was preparing for the contest, in which we had one week to create the best entry we could on a topic they provided, I starting doing considerable research on the topic… Read more