The Voice of the DBA

Steve Jones is the editor of SQLServerCentral.com and visits a wide variety of data related topics in his daily editorial. Steve has spent years working as a DBA and general purpose Windows administrator, primarily working with SQL Server since it was ported from Sybase in 1990. You can follow Steve on Twitter at twitter.com/way0utwest

Archives: April 2007

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We had a blizzard on Tuesday in Denver. Apr 24 and we got nearly a foot of snow out at the ranch.

We also lost power, which was a rude awakening. We had full laptop batteries, but no connectivity. I was taking kids to school and by the time I…

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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 25 April 2007

Post SP2 Fixes

I saw Brian's post on Microsoft's post on post sp2-fixes. Say that 10 times quickly.

They do a good job explaining it and I'm actually releasing a link Monday to it so people can understand what's going on and what they should install to be current.

The one thing…

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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 13 April 2007

Not 4GB

Windows doesn't see 4GB. If you have a 32bit OS with 4GB of RAM, Windows can't see it all.

I saw this very interesting post from Hilton Locke at Microsoft on the issue. Apparently it's mostly hardware, depending on what you have, and an architectural decision that there are memory…

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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 13 April 2007

The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit

On a recommendation, I picked up this book by Ralph Kimball. I remember it coming out years ago and I saw a speech by one of the co-authors, Margy Ross. She was great and I thought DW would be great. Then I got sidetracked into the OLTP world with…

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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 6 April 2007

QA/QC

I wrote a small commentary on quality control today and I'm surprised it didn't get more reaction.

I'm not a great tester and I'm sure I'd have missed these things as well, but there's no excuse for Microsoft, with a SQL Server team of hundreds, to not regression check everything…

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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 6 April 2007

Hot Fixes

I wrote about Hot Fixes being inclusive of previous hot fixes. Someone questioned this and so I went back to Simon's blog and checked his source. He's a SQL Server MVP (and a great guy, I got to meet him at the Summit last year) and he got it from…

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Posted in The Voice of the DBA on 3 April 2007

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