The Future of Bits
Feel like making a prediction this Friday? Steve Jones looks to the future with information workers and a knowledge economy. Answer this Friday poll and give us your guess about the future.
2009-10-16
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Articles
The Future of Bits
Feel like making a prediction this Friday? Steve Jones looks to the future with information workers and a knowledge economy. Answer this Friday poll and give us your guess about the future.
2009-10-16
136 reads
Work on a Strength or Weakness?
When deciding what to learn, there's a binary decision. Will you focus on a strength or a weakness? I think many people focus mostly on their strengths because they have a goal of really standing out in something. They perhaps want to avoid being..
2009-10-16
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Poor Man's Enterprise Feature - Lock Pages in Memory
Enable Lock Pages in memory on Standard edition was ONLY an Enterprise feature until now. Read this article to see how you enable this setting in SQL Server.
2009-10-15
8,848 reads
Afraid of Help
Is it hard for technology workers to ask for help? Or accept it? We seem to often be the type of people that want to solve problems and fix things on our own. Is that a problem? Steve Jones thinks that we should sometimes put aside our pride and get things done.
2009-10-15
103 reads
Afraid of Help
Is it hard for technology workers to ask for help? Or accept it? We seem to often be the type of people that want to solve problems and fix things on our own. Is that a problem? Steve Jones thinks that we should sometimes put aside our pride and get things done.
2009-10-15
79 reads
Afraid of Help
Is it hard for technology workers to ask for help? Or accept it? We seem to often be the type of people that want to solve problems and fix things on our own. Is that a problem? Steve Jones thinks that we should sometimes put aside our pride and get things done.
2009-10-15
108 reads
Finding Data Corruption
Rodney describes how a working DBA goes about troubleshooting data corruption. He demonstrates the tools and scripts required to seek out and fix data corruption in a timely manner, and so prevent it propagating into your backups.
2009-10-15
3,754 reads
How to Backup and Restore a SQL Server FILESTREAM Enabled Database
Most SQL Server DBAs have questions about backing up and restoring FILESTREAM enabled databases. In this tip, we will take a look at the steps Database Administrators need to follow in order to perform a backup and restore of a FILESTREAM database.
2009-10-15
3,288 reads
Sparse Columns – ConvertSVtoXML & XMLToResv
Not very often I run across something with zero matches in a search engine, but had it happen recently. I had set up a simple demo of a sparse column set and happened to look at the execution plan, was interested to see that the Compute Scalar was backed by ConvertSVtoXML. This was on a select from a table with one row, and then, being a little more curious, updated it with an xml fragment I saw a call to ConvertXMLtoResv. I’d venture that those serve to convert back/forth from XML storage.
2009-10-15
1,219 reads
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