SQLSaturday #52 Report
I was lucky enough to present two sessions at SQLSaturday #52 in Denver on September 25, 2010. By my estimate,...
2010-09-28
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Glenn Berry
SQL Server Quiz 2010
SQL Sever MVP Jacob Sebastian (blog/twitter) has been working hard to organize the SQL Server Quiz 2010 event which will...
2010-09-27
1,108 reads
Project Phoenix For Unemployed and Underemployed Developers
SQL Server MVP Arnie Rowland (blog/twitter) has put a lot of effort into conceiving, organizing, and publicizing Project Phoenix over...
2010-09-27
665 reads
Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update 10
On September 21, 2010, Microsoft released SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update 10, which is Build 2799. I count 29...
2010-09-22
1,280 reads
What Do You Think Just Happened To This Database Server?
This is a screenshot of Task Manager for a database instance that is part of a synchronous database mirroring partnership...
2010-09-20
1,181 reads
Home Theater Upgrades
Back in late 2003, I had my basement finished,and as part of that effort, I put in a dedicated home...
2010-09-20
601 reads
SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Diagnostic Information Queries
Here is the latest version of my Diagnostic Information Queries for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2. These...
2010-09-18
3,897 reads
SQL Saturday #52 in Denver
Its only about a week until SQL Saturday #52 in Denver. This is an all day, free event, being held...
2010-09-17
636 reads
Hardware 201:Selecting and Sizing Database Hardware for OLTP Performance
I did a presentation for the fourth hour of 24 Hours of PASS – Fall 2010 today, which was a lot...
2010-09-16
813 reads
Some Moderately Big Iron on x64
Here is a screenshot from a Dell PowerEdge R910 with four 2.27GHz Intel Xeon X7560 processors and 256GB of RAM....
2010-09-08
999 reads
Blogs
Microsoft Ignite Announcements Nov 2024
By James Serra
Announced at Microsoft Ignite last week were some new product features related to the...
SQL Training: Black Friday Deals Up to 75% Off
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When is the perfect moment to build a data strategy in a company?
The post When is the perfect moment to build a data strategy in a...
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Question of the Day
The Hash Join II
Which of these inputs is the smaller input to a hash join?
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