SQL Saturday 74 – Jacksonville FL

I made a 700+ mile round trip down to Jacksonville FL where I was fortunate enough to get to speak...

Foreign Keys Help Performance

I have always put FKs into my database for data integrity purposes. I’ve worked on enough applications that didn’t have...

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Checkpoints and the Lazy writer

Hi,
Both the lazy writer process and a checkpoint both push in-memory pages out to disk, however that’s where the similarity ends.
The reason...

A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Series Recap

Writing a month long series is always a lot more work than you initially expect. You would think that I...

May Question: What’s Your Backup Strategy?

As DBAs, one of our biggest responsibilities is to protect our data with backups. So, for this month’s question, “What’s...

A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 30

For Day 30 of this series, (which is the last day), I am going to talk a little about RAID,...

A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 29

For Day 29 of this series, I am going to talk about some of the basic things that you should...

Download: Powershell a Day -April 2011

I you liked my Powershell a day – april 2011, where every day I wrote a blog about powershell you can...