Enabling Compression? Update your baseline

I wrote recently about capacity planning, with an item near the end about disk usage. Someone pointed out to me...

So then, what’s the definition of an object……..?

Not blogged for a while due to client and project commitments but something which has surprised me when speaking with...

Improving cube processing time

As your SSAS cube gets bigger, cube processing time will become a problem.  This is especially true as more and...

Windows 8 Easy Refresh?

I saw this write up about the built in ability to both restore to factory settings as well as just...

Venting Frustration

We as DBA’s face an ever growing list of things to do and services to support.  We work in high...

Notes from 'Putting a Better SQL Server in Production' - the Ideal Pre-Prod checklist from Robert L. Davis

 
Last week, I sat in on Putting a Better SQL Server in Production - this is an ideal pre-prod checklist from...

Congratulations to Philippe Falardeau for Monsieur Lazhar's Oscar Nomination (Played by Fellag, the Algerian Comedian Famous For Le Visa)

 
Congratulations to Philippe Falardeau - he has made the official Oscar Nominations!
http://www.monsieurlazharmovie.com/tourné à Montréal – Filmed in Montreal! The hilarious Algerian comedian...

Windows Phone 7 and epic efforts to publish applications

Reblogged from betim drenica's blog:
There is plenty of time I am developing applications for Windows Phone and…
tools are great (aka...

Windows Phone 7 and epic efforts to publish applications

Reblogged from betim drenica's blog:

There is plenty of time I am developing applications for Windows Phone and… tools are great...

About those backups...

So I went to present at Charleston PASS on Thursday night and of course I had my standard contact information...