Time Bomb Design - A Longer Fuse
In a sequel to his first article on Time Bomb Design, David Poole examines the issues we find between development environments and production ones.
2010-05-26
10,584 reads
David Poole
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Scaling Out the Distribution Database
Replication is a great technology for moving data from one server to another, and it has a great many configuration options. David Poole brings us a technique for scaling out with multiple distribution databases.
2010-03-30
11,223 reads
Time Bomb Coding
Do your system contain a time bomb in the code? David Poole looks at some potential situations where you might be experiencing performance issues and delves into why.
2010-02-10
18,113 reads
Accidently Agile
Longtime SQL Server expert David Poole brings us a look at Agile Development and how he's been converted. (From Feb 2008)
2009-09-18 (first published: 2008-02-14)
12,698 reads
Database Documentation Using Red Gate's SQLDoc
Longtime author David Poole has written an excellent article about using SQLDoc, from Red Gate Software. Learn how you can document your own databases in this sponsored article.
2009-08-10
3,568 reads
My Approach to Writing for SQLServerCentral
Are you looking to raise your profile? Add something to your resume? Consider writing for SQLServerCentral. Longtime author and expert David Poole gives us some hints.
2009-06-19
3,142 reads
If databases were 100x as fast
Kognitio WX2 I went to a presentation by a company called Kognitio which has a super-fast in-memory database engine targeted at the data warehouse market. They have put the Powerpoint...
2009-06-03
1,673 reads
Book Review: The Data Warehousing Toolkit 2nd Edition
Longtime author and SQL Server guru David Poole takes a look at a classic book about Data Warehousing.
2009-04-24
2,355 reads
Deploying Scripts with SQLCMD
Deploying changes to your SQL Servers can be a challenge. Longtime SQL Server expert David Poole brings us a new article looking at a solution using SQLCMD.
2009-03-24
14,660 reads
Moving Tables and Indexes to Filegroups En Masse
Longtime author and SQL Server expert David Poole brings us a method to
2009-01-21
8,038 reads
Blogs
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Creating a Simple and Flexible Random Password Generator in SQL Server
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Identities and Sequences IV
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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