What I Want For My Birthday

Dell has teased us with some images of their upcoming 12th Generation servers (that will support the Intel Sandy Bridge-EP...

SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 Diagnostic Queries for March 2012

Since it is nearly March, I will go ahead and jump the gun by a few days and post an...

New Cumulative Updates For SQL Server 2008 R2

On Feb 22, 2012, Microsoft released SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Cumulative Update 5, which is Build 10.50.2806. This CU...

Behemoth of the Server Room?

Back during the PASS 2011 Summit in Seattle, I was interviewed by Tony Davis, Andrew Clark, and Rodney Landrum about...

Building or Buying a Desktop Based Development and Test Database Server

Back in April of 2011, I wrote a post that compared the merits of using an ancient, but actual rack...

AMD 2012-2013 Server Roadmap

AMD had their 2012 Financial Analyst Day today, which is basically a dog and pony show for stock analysts.

Previously,...

January 2012 SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 Diagnostic Information Queries

Since Microsoft recently released a couple of new Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2008, I thought it was finally time...

Database Mirroring From SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CU3

I recently ran into a production instance of SQL Server 2005 SP2 (Build 3042) that is running in a two...

Scaling SQL Server Presentation from SQLSaturday #104 Precon

On Friday, January 6, 2012, I got the opportunity to present an expanded version of my “Scaling SQL Server” presentation...

New TPC-E Benchmark for HP DL385 G7

Somewhat unnoticed during the holiday season, HP has submitted a new TPC-E benchmark for the DL385 G7 two socket database...