May 2011 S3OLV Meeting

After a whirlwind of last minute changes last month, we expect stability this month with the monthly meeting. Meeting Time is 6:30PM PST Erika Bakse (blog | twitter) has...

My Partitioning And Compression Quest!

So I have a pretty big database (around 1 TB) that’s getting a bit out of
hand.  I inherited it...

T-SQL Tuesday #18 Coming Next Week

Other than the week I hosted it, I’ve been caught off guard by T-SQL Tuesday most months. This time I...

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Checkpoints and the Lazy writer

Hi,
Both the lazy writer process and a checkpoint both push in-memory pages out to disk, however that’s where the similarity ends.
The reason...

Foreign Keys Help Performance

I have always put FKs into my database for data integrity purposes. I’ve worked on enough applications that didn’t have...

I’m an ACE

I am happy to announce that I’ll be joining Idera’s Advisor & Community Educator for SQL Server program.

Getting More Involved
I’ve always...

I’ve got 99 Problems, but a disk ain’t one

Tom LaRock has a new meme for Meme Monday. It’s all about the problems caused in your system other than...

Meme Monday – “I got 99 problems but a disk ain’t one”

Earlier today, Thomas LaRock (Blog | @SQLRockstar) tagged me for his Meme Monday post.  The question for today is: how many...