Moore's Law
Moore's Law has been in the front of technical people's minds for years. However is the end of it's applicability to our world near? This Friday Steve Jones asks if you pay attention to the news about processor hardware.
Service Broker: Performance and Scalability Techniques
SQL Server Service Broker provides support for building asynchronous messaging and queuing applications with the SQL Server Database Engine. This paper describes a large scale customer scenario and the techniques employed in scaling Service Broker to process tens of thousands of messages per second on one server.
Ten Common SQL Programming Mistakes
It is not always easy to spot "antipatterns" in your SQL, especially in more complex queries. In this article, Plamen demonstrates some of the most common SQL coding errors that he encounters, explains their root cause, and illustrates potential solutions.
Writing a Technical Article – Where to Publish
This is part three of a series on writing a technical article. The advice might apply to non-technical articles, but...
A Good Word for ODBC
A guest editorial from Phil Factor puts in a good word for ODBC. This is the standard for Windows machines to connect to all kinds of data sources, and is both loved and hated by developers of all kinds.
Less Than a Week - PASS 2009 Summit
A last push for the 2009 PASS Summit before registration goes up.
Managing Free Space
A new article from Paul Els looks at managing free space on your database servers by finding detached databases and old backup files.
Date Expression Compilation in SSIS
There are many different ways to manipulate dates when working with them in SSIS. Many great examples have been posted...
PASS Connector Editorial for Sep 9, 2009
I currently write the editorial for the PASS Connector which is published every two weeks as part of my role...
Understanding Scans And Seeks
Whether a query uses Scan or Seek can have a big impact on the cost of excuting that query. This article examines when each is used and which is optimal.
Blogs
Truncate Table Pitfalls
Truncate Table Pitfalls Truncating a table can be gloriously fast—and spectacularly dangerous when used carelessly....
dataMinds Connect 2025 – Slides & Scripts
You can find all the session materials for the presentation “Indexing for Dummies” that...
“SQL Server Is Slow” Part 4 of 4
By Kevin3NF
Parts 1, 2 and 3 got you to the (SQL) engine room. Now we...
Forums
visual studio seems to lose "provider" on pkg imports
hi, just to get this part out of the way, if my intended target...
ERD Tools recommendation
Hey All, I'm looking for a free ERD tool. Does anyone have any recommendations?...
Stairway to Azure SQL Hyperscale – Level 3: RBPEX Caching Layer Internals
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Stairway to Azure SQL Hyperscale...
Question of the Day
Vector Datatype Dimensions
The new vector datatype in SQL Server 2025 requires a number dimension parameter. What is the maximum number of dimensions supported?
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