Lifehacking – Not such a good idea?

I read the confessions of a recovering Lifehacker and thought it was an interesting read. It seems that the author...

Analyzing TPC-E Benchmark Performance by Physical Processor Core

The TPC Benchmark E (TPC-E) is an OLTP performance benchmark that was introduced in May, 2007. The TPC-E benchmark is...

Columnstore indexes and memory

Columnstore indexes are built and processed completely in memory.  You will receive an out-of-memory error if you do not have enough memory...

Watson Plays Jeopardy

I watched the documentary on Nova about the IBM project to build Watson, a computer that could play Jeopardy. The...

Denali – Day 23: Data Quality Services (DQS)

Denali – Day 23: Data Quality Services(DQS)

Data intelligence vs. human intelligence: Sql server RDBMS is a database system which has data...

Plan cache in SQL Server 2008R2

I was curious to look at the effect of database options, on the SQL server plan cache.
I have restored the...

How to synchronize the data from the Production environment to Development, Testing and Staging Environments for SQL Server?

One of the most common DBA task is to synchronize data to Development, Testing, and Staging environments. Normally this is...

Marketing Ideas for Chapters & SQLSaturday

I’m part of the team putting together SQLSaturday #151 in Orlando this year, and one of the things Kendal Van...

Planning the Development, Testing, Staging, and Production Environments for SQL Server part 1.

When asked about how to plan the ideal dev, test, staging and production SQL Server environments it’s easy to get...

The Tally Table and Expanding Rows

Suppose you had some data like this:
Class           Limit
————— ———–
Calculus        5
History         4
Physics         2
But what you really want is this:

Class          ...