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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 1

Grant Fritchey (9/18/2009)
Lynn Pettis (9/18/2009)
Grant Fritchey (9/18/2009)
Lynn Pettis (9/17/2009)
Just an FYI for the denizens of The Thread, next Tuesday I have another article being republished here on ssc as well. Keep an eye out as I am looking for feedback on it as well. 😉
Three is the magic number. When are you going to submit an abstract for an article in the SQL Server Standard?
Not sure Grant. I'll have to think about it as I'm not too sure what I'd write about in a printed magazine. I know you posted a link to what one needed to do to write for SQL Server Standard, could you repost that link?
Absolutely. Here you go.
And we're not printed. It's going to be electronic. Probably as a PDF so that it's "pretty." The plans are to put together a best of or yearly summary or something and print that, but those are currently just plans. I'd love to have you there.

Thanks, now for the dumb questions. Any guidance on article content, length of articles, what you are looking for in the abstract?

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 2

Lynn Pettis (9/18/2009)
Anyone else want to add anything here?

It always amazes me how quickly others will join a topic when asked. This site is just awesome! 🙂

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398882 More actions · Answer 3

Lynn Pettis (9/18/2009)
Grant Fritchey (9/18/2009)
Lynn Pettis (9/18/2009)
Grant Fritchey (9/18/2009)
Lynn Pettis (9/17/2009)
Just an FYI for the denizens of The Thread, next Tuesday I have another article being republished here on ssc as well. Keep an eye out as I am looking for feedback on it as well. 😉
Three is the magic number. When are you going to submit an abstract for an article in the SQL Server Standard?
Not sure Grant. I'll have to think about it as I'm not too sure what I'd write about in a printed magazine. I know you posted a link to what one needed to do to write for SQL Server Standard, could you repost that link?
Absolutely. Here you go.
And we're not printed. It's going to be electronic. Probably as a PDF so that it's "pretty." The plans are to put together a best of or yearly summary or something and print that, but those are currently just plans. I'd love to have you there.
Thanks, now for the dumb questions. Any guidance on article content, length of articles, what you are looking for in the abstract?

Content: You tell me.

Length: 2000-4000 words

Abstract: A paragraph or two that describes what the article will be about. That's all I need to get you started.

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt

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Roy Ernest SSC-Dedicated Points: 38780 More actions · Answer 4

Grant,

I know I am not the best article writer.. 🙂 But I think I will give it a try if I ever am able to make some time. 🙂

I have 5 + yrs of experience and I have written articles. So I think I do satisfy the criteria.. 😉

-Roy

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 5

Grant Fritchey (9/18/2009)
Lynn Pettis (9/18/2009)
Grant Fritchey (9/18/2009)
Lynn Pettis (9/18/2009)
Grant Fritchey (9/18/2009)
Lynn Pettis (9/17/2009)
Just an FYI for the denizens of The Thread, next Tuesday I have another article being republished here on ssc as well. Keep an eye out as I am looking for feedback on it as well. 😉
Three is the magic number. When are you going to submit an abstract for an article in the SQL Server Standard?
Not sure Grant. I'll have to think about it as I'm not too sure what I'd write about in a printed magazine. I know you posted a link to what one needed to do to write for SQL Server Standard, could you repost that link?
Absolutely. Here you go.
And we're not printed. It's going to be electronic. Probably as a PDF so that it's "pretty." The plans are to put together a best of or yearly summary or something and print that, but those are currently just plans. I'd love to have you there.
Thanks, now for the dumb questions. Any guidance on article content, length of articles, what you are looking for in the abstract?
Content: You tell me.
Length: 2000-4000 words
Abstract: A paragraph or two that describes what the article will be about. That's all I need to get you started.

I guess when I am asking about content, I was wondering about general topics from which an idea for one or more articles could potentially be developed. You could say I suffer from continuous writers block and need at least a push in a general direction. The articles I have written so far have been inspired by either posts here on ssc or (in the case of the upcoming repubilshed article, and my fourth) other articles.

Roy Ernest SSC-Dedicated Points: 38780 More actions · Answer 6

Hey Lynn, Why not write about resource governor? There is a lot to write and it is a pretty interesting topic too.

-Roy

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 7

Roy Ernest (9/18/2009)
Hey Lynn, Why not write about resource governor? There is a lot to write and it is a pretty interesting topic too.

Good idea, just one problem. I haven't had the financial resources ($50.00 is really difficult to come up with right now) to even purchase SQL Server 2008 Developers Edition. I have been pushing for both SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition and Developers Edition here at work, just haven't got it yet.

ta.bu.shi.da.yu Hall of Fame Points: 3985 More actions · Answer 8

RBarryYoung (9/18/2009)
Paul White (9/18/2009)
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I'm a lot more curious as to how you do this...?
Great trick though. 🙂

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398882 More actions · Answer 9

Roy Ernest (9/18/2009)
Grant,
I know I am not the best article writer.. 🙂 But I think I will give it a try if I ever am able to make some time. 🙂
I have 5 + yrs of experience and I have written articles. So I think I do satisfy the criteria.. 😉

Sure. Glad to have you.

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt

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SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398882 More actions · Answer 10

Lynn Pettis (9/18/2009)
Grant Fritchey (9/18/2009)
Lynn Pettis (9/18/2009)
Grant Fritchey (9/18/2009)
Lynn Pettis (9/18/2009)
Grant Fritchey (9/18/2009)
Lynn Pettis (9/17/2009)
Just an FYI for the denizens of The Thread, next Tuesday I have another article being republished here on ssc as well. Keep an eye out as I am looking for feedback on it as well. 😉
Three is the magic number. When are you going to submit an abstract for an article in the SQL Server Standard?
Not sure Grant. I'll have to think about it as I'm not too sure what I'd write about in a printed magazine. I know you posted a link to what one needed to do to write for SQL Server Standard, could you repost that link?
Absolutely. Here you go.
And we're not printed. It's going to be electronic. Probably as a PDF so that it's "pretty." The plans are to put together a best of or yearly summary or something and print that, but those are currently just plans. I'd love to have you there.
Thanks, now for the dumb questions. Any guidance on article content, length of articles, what you are looking for in the abstract?
Content: You tell me.
Length: 2000-4000 words
Abstract: A paragraph or two that describes what the article will be about. That's all I need to get you started.
I guess when I am asking about content, I was wondering about general topics from which an idea for one or more articles could potentially be developed. You could say I suffer from continuous writers block and need at least a push in a general direction. The articles I have written so far have been inspired by either posts here on ssc or (in the case of the upcoming repubilshed article, and my fourth) other articles.

Wait a minute. What little brain power I have left is for thinking up my own articles. :w00t:

I'm not sure what to say. I'm pretty much open to anything. So far we've had a wide variety of stuff, triggers, ssis package communication, clustering, execution plans... It's all good, so anything you can come up with is welcome.

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt

Author of:
SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

Ron McCullough SSC Guru Points: 63877 More actions · Answer 11

Completely off the THREADs normal discussions but I thought might be of interest to those who frequent the THREAD.

I decided to revisit Steve's editorial Moore's' Law

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/68112/

And then thought about the last meeting of the Ohio North SQL Server Special Interest Group and how the presentation "Building Multi-Terabyte Data Warehouses with SQL Doug Lanman - Microsoft" fitted into Steve's thoughts and the comments in the forum discussion.

I suggest that you visit this site http://www.bennettadelson.com/presentations.aspx?sig=sql and download the Power Point presentation of that meeting. (No password / special permission required to access the site) to learn about the new technologies "Fast Track" and "Madison" introduced in Feb. 2009 both using specialized hardware and SQL Server 2008.

Although not included in the Power Point presentation Doug Lanman did comment that with the speed of these systems indexes are not useful.

All the slides are interesting but these stood out to me:

Slide 19 states that 625K rows were selected from a 1 trillion row table in .11 seconds (Yes that is 11 hundredths of one second).

Slide 23 states that Madison will scale to 1PB (Petabyte) which is 1,000 terabytes, or 1,000,000 gigabytes

Slide 20 Is Microsofts request for partners for Beta testing, listing what MS will supply and what the partner need supply. Perhaps an opportunity for some firms whose DBA's frequent the THREAD

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Ron

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004354 More actions · Answer 12

I had a peta byte once... Some antibiotics and a tetanus shot took care of the problem. 😛

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004354 More actions · Answer 13

D.Oc (9/18/2009)

Jeff Moden (9/18/2009)
Paul White (9/18/2009)
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Heh... I guess it literally depends on how you look at it. 😛
I've gotta know... where did you get the upside down font and why does it work on this forum?

http://www.en.fliptext.net/%5B/quote%5D

Heh... cool. Thanks.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 14

Jeff Moden (9/19/2009)
I had a peta byte once... Some antibiotics and a tetanus shot took care of the problem. 😛

Jeff, don't you know how to spell?

What you had was a peta bite; not peta byte.

😀

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The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53354 More actions · Answer 15

Is that like a pita bite?

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