Storage - A meeting of minds
Even if you are not an infrastructure guy a good grasp of storage basics will stand you in good stead
2012-07-16
5,451 reads
David Poole
- Interests: Badminton, Cycling and Music. Keen piano player.
Fun with sp_executeSQL
Switching from 32 BIT SQL Server to a 64 BIT edition illustrates how removing a bottleneck from a system can have a detrimental affect overall
2012-01-31
17,102 reads
Intersect, Except, Union, All and Any
Longtime author and expert DBA David Poole examines a few T-SQL commands that he has never used. Learn how some of these little used T-SQL items function and see if they work for you.
2011-12-23 (first published: 2009-07-20)
40,563 reads
sp_prepexec and nHibernate
SQL Server architect David Poole sets about exploring sp_prepexec when called from nHibernate.
2011-12-08
9,800 reads
Mind mapping software - How it can help the DBA
Mind mapping software allows the rapid capture of thoughts and ideas. It is a killer app that can easily help a busy DBA capture their thoughts
2011-12-01
8,114 reads
Pascals Triangle, Home Work and Root Cause Analysis
A lively comparison of Pascal's triangle to root cause analysis from David Poole.
2011-10-19
4,528 reads
2011-09-15
11,688 reads
An nHibernate Head Scratcher
An interesting mystery on why some nHibernate performance issues might exist on your systems. Read this piece from SQL Server expert David Poole and look to see if this is a problem you can easily solve in your environment.
2011-04-11
6,151 reads
Excel with Stored Procedures
Longtime DBA David Poole brings us an interesting situation in involving setting up a user to allow Excel to query data from SQL Server.
2010-08-13 (first published: 2008-08-13)
61,302 reads
A Quick Look at the MPP World
David Poole takes a look at the Massively Parallel Processing world for database servers.
2010-08-11
4,587 reads
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QUOTENAME Quote Parameters
When I use QUOTENAME(), I can optionally provide the character used to surround the string in the result. Can I use any character?
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