Under Repair

I’m glad I called Toshiba last night. When my laptop died on Sunday, and never came back Monday, I wasn’t...

Explain it to yourself

I found a nice post from a friend, Roy Ernest, on an effective way to learn. He notes that one...

Fundamentals of Storage Systems – Testing IO Systems

12/03/2009 - UPDATE! There were a couple of bugs in the SQLIOCommandGenerator new SQLIOTools.zip has been updated.
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I often tell people one...

PowerShell V2 Remoting

To use remoting you'll need to install Powershell V2, unless you're running Windows 2008 R2 or Windows 7, you'll need...

Upgrading to Windows 7

I’ve been using Win 7 on my dev machine for a few months now, and finally decided over the Thanksgiving...

Google Dashboard

Recently announced, Google Dashboard shows some but not quite all of the data that Google has accrued about you – a...

Using Resource Monitor In Windows Server 2008 to Look at I/O Performance for SQL Server 2008

One quick and dirty tool that I like to use to monitor I/O performance at the file level is Resource...

Congratulations to Christopher Graham for Taking Companies to Task About Protecting Data Privacy

The New Information Commissioner for the United Kingdom is Mr. Christopher Graham, he's working from Wilmslow, near Manchester, with a...

MDX Utility Belt of Calculations Part 2

This post is a part of a series of blog posts I am writing to give you a Batman-like Utility...

How do -You- use SQL Server

I’ve been tagged by a misplaced yankee, uh, New Englander, whatever. The question is, how do I/we use SQL Server...