A DBA’s Fantasy
I happened upon the screenshot below, showing a stress test in progress against a Windows machine with 64 quad-core CPUs...
2009-10-08
1,401 reads
Glenn Berry
Very Useful SQL Server 2008 High Availability White Paper On MSDN
Fellow MVP, Paul Randal from SQLSkills.com has published a 35 page white paper on MSDN called “High Availability with SQL...
2009-10-08
789 reads
Updated SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries
Here is the October 2009 version of my SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries. They are very useful for gathering...
2009-10-07
1,797 reads
More SQL Server Benchmarks From AnandTech
AnandTech has another I.T. oriented post up comparing the performance and value of two-socket servers to four-socket servers. The gist...
2009-10-06
806 reads
How to Diagnose and Correct a “Runaway” Transaction Log
This shows you how to diagnose and correct a "runaway" transaction log. This is a very common issue that I...
2009-10-05
8,582 reads
A Tale of Two Utility Companies
I live in Parker, Colorado, which is a suburb of Denver, about 25 miles southeast of downtown Denver. I have...
2009-10-05
617 reads
Stupid DBA Tricks
Well, I just learned a valuable lesson about something you should not do as a DBA…
About a month ago, a...
2009-10-04
4,346 reads
SQL Server MVP Deep Dives Book available for pre-order
The "SQL Server MVP Deep Dives" book that I wrote two chapters for is up for pre-order. This will be...
2009-10-02
619 reads
More Evidence Why You Should Avoid Lots Of Conditional Logic In Stored Procedures
Gail Shaw, who is a SQL MVP from South Africa, has an excellent blog post about this subject.
The executive...
2009-09-25
814 reads
New Cumulative Updates For SQL Server 2008
Yesterday, Microsoft released SQL Server 2008 SP1 CU4, which is Build 2734, and SQL Server 2008 RTM CU7, which is...
2009-09-22
646 reads
Blogs
Rambling about Data on Wheels – origins, branding, expansion
By DataOnWheels
I have been asked many times about how the name “Data on Wheels” came...
Think Twice Before Enabling Fabric’s Inbound Network Protection
Fabric inbound network protection involves two tenant-level controls: Private Link and Block Public Internet...
Match the Model to the Task, Not the App: An Orchestrator-Worker Pattern in Python
Most apps that call an LLM send every request to the same model. That...
Forums
AI Observability Challenges in FinOps as a DBA
Comments posted to this topic are about the item AI Observability Challenges in FinOps...
Migration Challenge: Excessive FULLSCAN Statistics Update Duration Blocking SQL
Hello everyone , I am planning to migrate a database from SQL Server 2014...
SQL Agent Job Automated Change Capture Process
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Agent Job Automated Change...
Question of the Day
Finding a Database Master Key
Where do I check for the existence of a Database Master Key (DMK) in SQL Server 2025?
See possible answers