Enabling Memory Support for over 4GB of Physical Memory
This is something we had to do again recently and its improved our performance and query speeds on one particular system....
2010-07-12
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Blog Posts
Exceptional DBA of the Year 2010 Finalist!
This post is a tad overdue as the public announcement was a few weeks back but it’s been a topsy-turvy...
2010-07-12
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It is Great to Get Feedback From My Readers
I get a lot of emails from people who read my blog, books, articles, and from people who have attended...
2010-07-12
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Mix & Match – Day 4
I’ve been scouring my notes (old & new), wading through all my previous research and unearthing advice, tips & tricks that have...
2010-07-12
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Old McDonalds and The Cow Store
As a child did you have a place that was your ‘thing’, something that just the mention of it would...
2010-07-12
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PowerShell and Effective Meetings at PASS 2010
Last week, PASS announced this year’s program for the 2010 Summit in Seattle, Washington. The program session are available online....
2010-07-12
442 reads
S3OLV July Recap
This month we had our first adventure in LiveMeeting presentations. We had the pleasure of listening to Jack Corbett give...
2010-07-12
441 reads
Settling or Pushing On
I read a blog recently that was titled: Time to Stop Settling. I think that the author (a friend) was...
2010-07-12
382 reads
Should DBAs Be the Protectors of Data?
Originally published in the Database Weekly newsletter.
I used to work at a large organization ($8 billion in revenues) as a...
2010-07-12
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Speaking at Greater New Orleans .Net User Group (GNO.NET)
This week I will speaking at the Greater New Orleans .Net User Group. My topic is Introduction to the SQL...
2010-07-12
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Blogs
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
Microsoft Build 2026 announcements
By James Serra
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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