Big Data I: 16 Papers and original articles

  What are the most influential papers in the world of Big Data?  Let me suggest:...

Big Data I: 16 Papers and original articles

  What are the most influential papers in the world of Big Data?  Let me suggest: http://bit.ly/BigData1 We face a data management problem: IDC 2010 Digital Unverse Study http://bit.ly/BigData2...

How to become an expert in your field

I have been compiling a list of what things a person can do to become an expert, or guru, in...

More Bloopers for Memorial Day

It’s Memorial Day, and as usual, I have a blooper reel for the editorial. However I couldn’t fit everything in...

Optimizer Timeouts with XQuery

I was looking at performance of a database and I noticed a few of the plans were very large and...

SQL Query Run Time Estimation

A followup to a post about subqueries with an estimation for how long it would take for the query to...

Can Scrum work for the DBA?

Agile! Scrum! Development methodologies! Sprint!

If you have a manager who reads any web page about being a manager, then you...

SqlHerts–26th May 2011

Thanks to those who turned out to see my presentation at SqlHerts on Thursday 26thMay.  Its a true pleasure to...

Accidentally Dropped the Distribution Database

Have you made the mistake of dropping your distribution database like this?

If so, remember not to do this ever again. ...

ACID Rules in Sql Server

ACID Rules
ACID Rules:- It is a concept for evaluation of databases and their architecture.
A:- (Atomicity) – Atomicity  states the principle of  All...