Performance Benefits of Adding RAM to a Laptop
I have a pretty nice Dell Latitude E6420 that I am using as a loaner laptop while I wait for...
2011-06-30
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Glenn Berry
CPU-Z 1.58 Released
Version 1.58 of the very useful utility CPU-Z was released on June 24, 2011. Originally (and still) popular for bragging...
2011-06-27
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A Tale of Two Sandy Bridge Laptops
I recently bought a new teaching and presentation laptop, which is a Toshiba Portege R835-P55X, which I found at the...
2011-06-21
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Presenting Two Sessions at PASS Summit 2011
I found out earlier this week that I was fortunate enough to have my half day session on “Scaling SQL...
2011-06-19
916 reads
Three New TPC-E Submissions
I just noticed three very recent new TPC-E Benchmark Submissions that I thought were quite interesting. As I have written...
2011-06-15
940 reads
Moving On To New Challenges
After nearly five and half years, I left NewsGator Technologies for a new position as a Database Architect at Avalara,...
2011-06-13
843 reads
June 2011 Version of SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Queries
Since it is June, I thought it was time to update my SQL Server 2008 (and 2008 R2) Diagnostic Information...
2011-06-02
683 reads
PASS Announces Pre-conference and Spotlight Sessions for PASS 2011 Summit
Today, PASS announced the Pre-conference and Spotlight Sessions for the PASS Summit 2011 in Seattle, which will run from October...
2011-06-01
1,105 reads
Presentation Deck For Hardware 201 at Denver SQL Server User’s Group on May 19, 2011
I got the chance to give an updated version of Hardware 201: Selecting and Sizing Database Hardware for OLTP Performance...
2011-05-20
787 reads
Presenting at Denver SQL Server User’s Group on May 19
I will be giving the main presentation at this month’s meeting of the Denver SQL Server User’s Group on May...
2011-05-17
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Blogs
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
The DIY Cost of Masking Test Data For Smaller Organizations
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if...
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
Forums
XACT_ABORT being set to ON by web services
We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
OPENQUERY Flexibility
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OPENQUERY Flexibility
Which of these are valid OPENQUERY() uses?
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