Fundamentals of Storage Systems, Understanding Reliability and Performance of Solid State Storage
Solid state storage has come on strong in the last year. With that explosion of new products it can be...
2010-10-28
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Wesley Brown
- Interests: Collecting old computers
- Skills: I talk a lot.
Fundamentals of Storage Systems, Solid State Storage Basics
Solid state storage is the new kid on the block. We see new press releases every day about just how...
2010-10-25
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At The End of the IO Road With C#? Pave New Road!
Not being one for letting a problem get the best of me, I took another look at the asynchronous overlapped...
2010-10-07
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Software Review: Idera’s Virtual Database
Ever since the upgrade from SQL Server 6.5 to 7.0 one of the most requested features I’ve heard people complain...
2010-09-21
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At The End of the IO Road With C#
Previously I’ve written about doing fun IO stuff in C#. I found out that some of my old tricks still...
2010-09-07
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What A Great SQL Saturday! Baton Rouge
Had a great time in Baton Rouge. The event was well attended and had an awesome lineup of speakers. I...
2010-08-16
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The Dangers of Sub-queries!!!!
Ok, now that I have your attention this really should be titled the danger of not qualifying all objects, but...
2010-07-29
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Fusion-IO releases new 2.1 driver and firmware
And it is well worth the upgrade. I recently had the opportunity to interview David Flynn CEO of Fusion-IO and...
2010-07-23
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Creating UDL Files On The Fly
Many years ago, in the dark ages of DTS I created a little app that would take two parameters and...
2010-07-19
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Building My New Home, SQL Server IO
April of 2009 I decided it was time to blog about my SQL Server experiences in earnest. Steve Jones (twitter|blog)...
2010-07-14
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Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers