Fundamentals of Storage Systems – RAID and Hard Disk Reliability, Under the Covers
In the last RAID article we covered the basics. This is a little deeper dive into the underlying mechanics of...
2009-12-08
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Blog Posts
Handling Inconvenient Requests
"You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they...
2009-12-08
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Locking & Blocking
On the gridiron, two opposing teams are contending for one very limited resource, the football. One team has it; the...
2009-12-08
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Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008 Pre-reading List
Via Twitter, I stumbled upon a link to this newly updated pdf from Joseph Sack and David Ikeda who are...
2009-12-08
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PASS Editorial for December 9, 2009
I currently write the editorial for the PASS Connector which is published every two weeks as part of my role...
2009-12-08
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The Numbers Don’t Lie… Except When They Do
There are few things more reassuring for a data professional than having clean, consistent data to back up critical business...
2009-12-08
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Travel Recap for 2009
Starting Wednesday, December 9, 2009, I am on vacation until Monday, January 4th, 2010. Instead of traveling somewhere else for...
2009-12-08
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T-SQL Tuesday #001 – Dates and Times
T-SQL Tuesday was started by Adam Machanic (@AdamMachanic) on his blog to encourage SQL Bloggers to share their tips and...
2009-12-08
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T-SQL Tuesday #1: Date/Time Tricks
I’m going to try out Adam Machanic’s idea for a blog party. The topic this month are Date/Time tricks.
Instead of...
2009-12-08
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64 bit virtual PC Substitute
Hey there gang. I, like many of you, am very excited about the new betas for the 2010 product stack...
2009-12-07
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Blogs
Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...
T-SQL Snapshot Backups on Availability Group Secondary Replicas
One of my favourite features of SQL Server 2022 was the T-SQL Snapshot Backups....
The Book of Redgate: Hours
By Steve Jones
I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of...
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Squared Values
What happens when I run this code in SQL Server 2022?
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