Thanksgiving Review

Last week I posted about planning to cook some for Thanksgiving, thought this week I’d share some of how it...

Transactional Replication Conversations –Must read

Everyone who wants to know about how transaction replication works and how to improve the performance of transaction replication must...

You pulled BUILTIN\Administrators, but are you auditing?

The conversation on local administrators having rights in SQL Server has proven to be interesting and at times entertaining. My...

Another Update on SQLSaturday

I’ve fallen behind a little on sharing SQLSaturday news, so I’ll try to catch up on the latest. First, we’re...

Authors Needed for the SQL Server Standard (PASS) & Almost Engraved Invitations

SQL Server Standard editor Grant Fritchey needs more content! We’ve got about three done and three more in the pipeline,...

Dr. DeWitt’s Key Note at the PASS Summit

If you missed this, here’s your chance to make it up. If you were there, and like me, you need...

Explain it to yourself

I found a nice post from a friend, Roy Ernest, on an effective way to learn. He notes that one...

Featured Blogger: Tim Mitchell

I met Tim about a year and a half ago at SQLSaturday Jacksonville and from the start we hit it...

Fundamentals of Storage Systems – Testing IO Systems

12/03/2009 - UPDATE! There were a couple of bugs in the SQLIOCommandGenerator new SQLIOTools.zip has been updated.
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I often tell people one...

I think I’ll back up my laptop

Those were the first words out of my wife’s mouth when I told her my laptop had died. She walked...