stephen.kemp (12/11/2014)

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Sir Slicendice. Do you have any empirical data to support your claims? Or are you relying on anecdotal 'evidence'? Or.. are you simply defining the programmer type by their...

One thing that occurs to me after hitting 'Post' is that the most successful of these citizen-programmer oriented language systems have very 'messy' foundations, while the languages which have strict,...

Interesting editorial, as always!

This debate / tension / pendulum swing is as old as programming itself; consider:

- Fortran (FORmula TRANslator), which was intended to enable non-programmers use a computer to...

Nice article - but I will mention: recursive CTE's aren't always slow! In fact, in my study of the capabilities of the optimizer a few years back, I found...

Steve usually does such a good job of covering the more business side of things that I'm kind of surprised neither he nor anyone else mentioned: to me, step one,...

SQAPro (9/1/2009)

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Sir Slicendice (9/1/2009)

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Well, first, as has been amply stated in this thread, WHS 'raid' isn't really Raid-1; if you have 3 drives on WHS and loose 2 of them,...

First, let me say that I'm no WHS fanboy; I simply find it the best tool for what I need (a home server). I'm rather agnostic overall; I use...

One thing that should be pointed out about the approach WHS uses: the data storage drives that WHS uses are normal NTFS volumes; you can readily pull these disks from...

Steve makes a really good point about these internet services potentially going out of business and taking your data with them; it's one of the reasons I have yet to...

I've been running a WHS server for several years now (did the beta then bought the product at RTM); it's on an older Dell desktop that I added 16 1TB...

John Beggs (1/11/2009)Keep in mind though, sharing spindles doesn't have to be bad. If you know the work load of the other devices sharing the spindles, you can gain...

One thing I would add: people who are contemplating virtualization/SANs for data warehouses should track down the performamce analysis work done by the late Jim Gray (Microsoft); his concept of...

In my experience, the benefit of virtualization for SQL server is how much you are willing to trade off improved management for performance.

On the ease of management side, virtualization (VMs...

Reading through this thread after the long w/e, I think people might be taking certain absolute conclusions about the way SS05 operates, specifically regards the optimizer (or lack thereof in...

CheeseMan316 (11/24/2008)

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Adam...