Slow Blogging
Sorry, I’ve been travelling for three weeks and, except for the posts around the PASS Summit, I’ve been blogging very...
2009-11-23
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Blog Posts
Some Intel Westmere Benchmarks
PCLab.pl has an interesting review and benchmarks of a 3.07GHz Westmere-EP processor (which is the six-core, 32nm successor to the...
2009-11-23
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Some Ways To Look For Things in SQL Server Modules
If you have a medium to large database in SQL Server, with lots of stored procedures, functions or views, it...
2009-11-23
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South Florida Code Camp
I can’t wait until Feb 27 when Code Camp is right in my backyard! I just submitted my session for...
2009-11-23
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SQL Saturday Orlando Presentations now online.
My presentation and sample files from SQLSaturday in Orlando are now online for you to download. Check them out at...
2009-11-23
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Stop Splashing with -NoSplash
Many times when I'm teaching a class or working with a group, they express frustration at the load time for...
2009-11-23
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Super Seven Cube Cleanup Steps
Everyone likes to get a project done, but many times in our rush to deploy we bypass some of the...
2009-11-23
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The Car Update – Prius Sales
I haven’t done a car update in some time, and I’d like to get back to them. Surprisingly quite a...
2009-11-23
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Change the Report Manager logo
A common question I've been asked a lot lately is how to replace the icon in the Report Manager to...
2009-11-22
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Fundamentals of Storage Systems – Capturing IO Patterns
We often take the advice given to us on forums or in articles at face value. Even though the authors...
2009-11-20
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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Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead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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