PASS Virtualization Virtual Chapter Open Q&A – 1/13
Next Wednesday, January 13th, at 1pm Eastern the PASSVirtualization Virtual Chapter will be holding an open questions and answers session on...
2016-01-05
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Technobabble by Klee from @kleegeek
New Whitepaper – SQL Server Licensing Reduction
Poor storage performance continues to be the largest pain point with enterprise Database Administrators in today’s virtual world. However, it...
2015-12-17
1,082 reads
Giving Thanks Around the Holidays
In the West, the holiday season summons different memories and plans for different people. The thought of gorging on a...
2015-12-25 (first published: 2015-12-15)
1,019 reads
SQL Cruise Caribbean 2016 is almost here!
Want to get out of the winter blues and into some warmer weather for some deep SQL Server training? Join...
2015-12-07
687 reads
Webinar – Lowering SQL Server Licensing Costs
On Tuesday, December 15th, Bala Narasimhan and I are presenting a webinar where we will walk through real-world examples that...
2015-12-02
454 reads
Summon Blue Screens of Death (for testing purposes only, of course)
Today I had a need to manually trigger and sustain a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) inside a Windows Server...
2015-11-30
833 reads
Question: Single SQL Server VM on One Host Justifications
Earlier this week I received a great question from a friend, and read something like this.
Hi David,I usually recommend people...
2015-11-11
402 reads
PASS Summit 2015 Wrap Up
Last week’s PASS Summit conference in Seattle, WA was incredible (as always). It’s my favorite tech event of the year,...
2015-11-09
456 reads
Interview with PernixData on Database Performance Challenges
I recently recorded an interview with PernixData where he discusses some of the largest challenges with virtualized databases, and talks about...
2015-10-30 (first published: 2015-10-21)
982 reads
Webinar with PernixData – Tuesday at 1PM Pacific
Join PernixData and me tomorrow at 1PM Pacific for a webinar discussing an exciting technology from PernixData!
In-memory computing is gaining...
2015-10-19
309 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #198 Roundup: How Do You Detect Data Changes?
Thank you to everyone who participated in T-SQL Tuesday #198! When I wrote the...
Optimizing Redshift Performance by Configuring WLM Queues
Efficient query performance in Amazon Redshift often comes down to how well you manage...
PowerShell Strikes Back: Return of the Loop
By gbargsley
Welcome back to PowerShell Strikes Back. We’re three weeks in, and the training is...
Forums
Dealing with huge heap tables
Recently, our dev teams approach me for advice on improving their huge heap table...
Merge Replication failing with Error converting data type nvarchar to numeric
After upgrading 2 Merge Replicated databases to SQL 2022 and re-establishing the Merge Replication...
Why Your Index Isn't Being Used? - Reading Execution Plans to Find the Real Culprit
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Why Your Index Isn't Being...
Question of the Day
Distance Metric Algorithms
What are the distance metric algorithms that can be used in VECTOR_DISTANCE()?
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