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Join Me May 19th for 24 Hours of PASS
Check out all the great SQL Server sessions you can attend for FREE in this on-line event....(read more)
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SQL Saturday is Coming to Nashville! Won't You?
How 'Bout a Little Context? Let me be direct with you. I love SQL Saturday . If it were a woman , I'd marry it. (Avoiding all extraneous thoughts of what my real wife would say, etc etc). Check out...
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In-Memory Databases (IMDBs)
Even those of us who were never good at math can tell that the CPU is outpacing the other system components. Two recent developments are helping to change that equation: SSDs and IMDBs....(read more)
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It's the Atlanta Attendance Contest!
I'm speaking tonight on Top 10 Mistakes DBAs Make at the Atlanta SQL Server User Group meeting in Alpharetta, GA. You can find all of the details here . The Best Dang Design Book for SQL Server...
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See You in St Louis, and then London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Stockholm, and...
Good grief, there's a lot of travel in my future. <sigh ... deep breath> It'll be exhausting and it'll be hard to lose so much time with the family. But if I'm able to avoid travel mishaps, it'll...
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My Last "Catch-Up" Post for 2010 Content
I did a lot of writing in 2010. Unfortunately, I didn't do a good job of keeping all of that writing equally distributed throughout all of the channels where I'm active. So here are a few more posts...
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Adventures in the Land of CloudDB/NoSQL/NoAcid
Cloud, Bunny, or CloudBunny? Last year, some of my friends from Quest Software attended Hadoop World in New York. In 2009, I never would've guessed that Quest would be there with products, community...
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How Do You SKU?
I’d like your opinion here. Follow my logic here for a moment as I walk through a couple rhetorical questions. Have you ever had a friend developed an application entirely on SQL Server Developer...
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NOSQL- A Quick Overview
Several attendees at the SQLRally were asking about NoSQL ("Not Only SQL") and its benefits. This article gives a quick overview: HERE . Also, two good resources have come out from my friend Guy...
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Timewarp: What Is a Relational Database?
These days, relational database management systems (RDBMSs) like Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle are the primary engines of information systems everywhere, particularly for enterprise computing systems...
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MySQL, NoSQL, and NuoDB
Check up on some new data management platforms, especially if you use MySQL....(read more)
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Database Trends & Applications column: Database Benchmarking from A to Z
Have you heard of the monthly print and web magazine Database Trends & Applications (DBTA)? Did you know I'm the regular columnist covering SQL Server ? For the past six months, I've been writing a...
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Now Playing on SSWUG TV!
Get the details about Kevin's new weekly web show appearing on SSWUG.org. ...(read more)
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ICYMI: Troubleshooting CPU, Logging Myths, Missing Indexes, and Query Tuning...
Great Articles at SQLPerformance.com There are so many good articles from SQLPerformance.com this ICYMI article that it’s hard to know which are best to highlight in the limited space. So, I’ll be...
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ICYMI: Partitioning Advice, Purging Data Bloat, and an example of TVF...
Here are some oldies, but goodies that I recommend you read: Two Partitioning Peculiarities and Aggregates and Partitioning Most of us know that partitions are one of the best ways to scale very large...
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