Fundamentals of Storage Systems, Understanding Reliability and Performance of Solid State Storage
Solid state storage has come on strong in the last year. With that explosion of new products it can be...
2010-10-28
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Wesley Brown
- Interests: Collecting old computers
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Fundamentals of Storage Systems, Solid State Storage Basics
Solid state storage is the new kid on the block. We see new press releases every day about just how...
2010-10-25
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At The End of the IO Road With C#? Pave New Road!
Not being one for letting a problem get the best of me, I took another look at the asynchronous overlapped...
2010-10-07
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Software Review: Idera’s Virtual Database
Ever since the upgrade from SQL Server 6.5 to 7.0 one of the most requested features I’ve heard people complain...
2010-09-21
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At The End of the IO Road With C#
Previously I’ve written about doing fun IO stuff in C#. I found out that some of my old tricks still...
2010-09-07
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What A Great SQL Saturday! Baton Rouge
Had a great time in Baton Rouge. The event was well attended and had an awesome lineup of speakers. I...
2010-08-16
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The Dangers of Sub-queries!!!!
Ok, now that I have your attention this really should be titled the danger of not qualifying all objects, but...
2010-07-29
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Fusion-IO releases new 2.1 driver and firmware
And it is well worth the upgrade. I recently had the opportunity to interview David Flynn CEO of Fusion-IO and...
2010-07-23
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Creating UDL Files On The Fly
Many years ago, in the dark ages of DTS I created a little app that would take two parameters and...
2010-07-19
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Building My New Home, SQL Server IO
April of 2009 I decided it was time to blog about my SQL Server experiences in earnest. Steve Jones (twitter|blog)...
2010-07-14
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Blogs
How AgentDBA Identifies Backup Failures
By Arun Sirpal
Every DBA has a box like this. Sitting untouched for months. Nobody’s proud of...
Tip: Expanding a SQL statement
In all recent versions of the database you can call DBMS_UTILITY.EXPAND_SQL_TEXT to get the...
AI Helps Me with My Sloppiness
By Steve Jones
I type fairly well. Well, I type fast, but I do wear out a...
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In the original Independence Day movie (1996), what type of computer did Jeff Goldblum use to connect to the alien mainframe? Take a guess, don't look it up or ask AI.
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