having 400-500 level SQL Server internals content WITH (COMPRESSION=PAGE) that gets it down to char(140) per page. The changing face of community I am
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I am writing this post because the SQL PASS Professional Development(PD) Virtual Chapter is going to be launching soon. I wanted to define what this means to
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There are a handful of things that can make SQL Server choose a “bad plan”. They usually revolve around variable sized result sets. Some problematic
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I was writing a blog post to show how to solve the problem of bad estimations due to uneven data distribution with filtered statistics. After an hour or so of
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Life happens and the next thing you know a month is gone. I know you have been wondering where I have been. Srsly, my ego allows me to think that the Internet
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Writing from the plane. I just wanted to let you know this because it sounds like I am cool. ;) On the way to Sacramento with a short stop in Vegas. Hopefully,
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A bit house music that I recorded this weekend. It is all 2009 stuff except for the first song. All music is available at http://juno.co.uk and other fine
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Disclaimer: The enterprise Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS) that I will be using is for offered by the company I work for. I have been there 10 years and I am
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Can you take thoroughness to a fault? There are some things that cannot be taken too far like intelligence. In a business setting, have you ever met someone who
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Disclaimer: The enterprise Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS) that I will be using is for offered by the company I work for. I have been there 10 years and I am
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I posted the first new song that that I have put any time into for the first time in a couple years. It is banging but chordy melancholy Techno at 125BPM. 8
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Chris Shaw has a new nickname. I here by dub the “Meme”.He has a new quiz out. Meme tagged Brent Ozar(WWW, Twit) who tagged Thomas LaRock(WWW, Twit)
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Well, I hope you are not looking for them from me. All of my secrets are common knowledge now. I was hoping you would share yours with us. Just leave them in
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Holding off on the newest features sounds like a no brainer especially when the next SQL Server release seem a million years away and is BI focused. In the
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“Wow, the application sure is smoking today.” “You know, Bob, I cannot remember the last time SQL was down. You sure are doing a good job.”
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So what is the biggest cloud pitfall? Security, you say? Nope. That is too big not to solved and it is in everyone’s best interest to do so. Performance?
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Private clouds are all the rage right now. The concepts in the post applies to all virtualization products and all of the major enterprise databases servers so
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Bob Ward posted a good article on Large Pages and SQL Server support. There are a couple of things I had to do further research on so I thought I would pass it
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Alt Title: “Like” this Post. I am talking about Google reader. It was already the defacto RSS reader for those that realize that the internet IS serious
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I have signed up for the conference and booked my room at the Sheraton. I am contemplating prepost con sessions. I would like to go to Kimberly Tripp’s (WWW,
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In the first post, I stated that it is better to scale up than out(my opinion) but I have seen applications try to scale out in several ways. Some worked better
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Most recently, The Planet noted, he spent 10 years with Terremark Worldwide Inc. and Data Return Corp., which Terremark acquired two years ago. At Terremark, The Planet continued, Blair served as senior vice president of channel sales ...
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The new HP DL785 G6’s hit the HP web site this week. They will be available mid September. 8 sockets that support the new AMD 6 core 8400 series Opterons.
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