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
1,393 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
776 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
1,793 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
805 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
8,561 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
611 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
4,338 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
617 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
812 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
643 reads
Blogs
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
The DIY Cost of Masking Test Data For Smaller Organizations
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if...
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
Forums
XACT_ABORT being set to ON by web services
We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
OPENQUERY Flexibility
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OPENQUERY Flexibility
Which of these are valid OPENQUERY() uses?
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