ZFS & Hard Drive Defects

The most recent ACM Queue Magazine (Vol 5 #6, Sep/Oct 2007) had two really interesting articles. The first was about...

Suggestions for PASS Published on SSC

I wrote this article shortly after returning from the PASS 2007 Summit and tried hard to come up with ideas...

Suggested Reading: Deadlock Notifications in SQL Server 2005

Here's a good article on setting up Deadlock Notifications in SQL Server 2005 written by Patrick LeBlanc.

The Troubleshooting List & Replication Statement Delivery Options

All of these are new articles that have gone up on SSC recently. The troubleshooting one was my attempt to...

Bill Graziano Visits oPASS & JSSUG

Bill Graziano (main man at SQLTeam.com, consultant, and VP of PASS) was in town recently to speak at both the...

Schema as Folder

I'm catching up on my reading today and ran across an article from Kathi Kellenberger called Understanding the Difference between...

Partitioning Part 2 Posted on SSC

I'm a couple days late updating the blog, the article went up on Mon.

Views, Temp Tables, Data Types - Aha!

I spent last week onsite with a client teaching performance tuning and it was really a good week. Great company...

The Contest

I hate contests. I mean it's nice to get people involved and I start out with the best of intentions...

What's In a PodCast - Part 1

Well, lots of mistakes. Here's a good example of one: Friday Oct 5 mistake.

I decided to go the budget route...