April 26, 2009 5:29 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Bob Ward,
Bug,
Lock Pages,
Microsoft CSS,
SQL Server 2005,
SQL Server 2008Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008 Standard edition will be getting the Lock Pages in Memory feature that SQL Server Enterprise Edition has had starting in SQL Server 2005. This was announced by Bob Ward via the
April 20, 2009 11:00 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
CALs,
SQL LicensingProbably one of the least fun things about being a DBA is having to deal with the licensing of SQL Server. Continued »
April 13, 2009 11:00 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Data Center Build,
EMC,
SQL Server,
VMwareFor those of you who know me, or have heard me talk at a Code Camp in the last year, you've heard me talk about a data center migration that I want to do from Rackspace in Texas to our own equipment in the LA area. Well that day has finely come.
Our current environment has served us well, but...
April 6, 2009 11:00 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Amazon DB,
Azure,
Cloud ComputingI haven't made a decision on putting databases in the cloud. I think Amazon and now Microsoft have the write idea for cloud databases. Give people lots of options, use named value pars (AmazonDB or the old school Azure database) when it makes sence and use full blown RDBMS when it makes...
March 30, 2009 7:45 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Microsoft CSS,
SQL Dumper,
SQL Server 2008If you don't already read the CSS teams blog, I suggest that you do. A little while ago they posted a blog post about how the
March 27, 2009 3:04 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Colin Stasiuk,
EarthLink,
Ping,
SQL Server Management StudioToday I read a post from my good friend Colin Stasiuk (aka @BenchmarkIT) where he talked about
March 26, 2009 3:00 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Clustered Index,
IndexThis used to be a very easy question to answer as the answer was 1. However these days, with some creativity you can get some extra ones.
March 21, 2009 11:26 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
In Person Events,
PASSSo, as you may have heard the SQL PASS 2009 Call for Speakers has gone out. I've submitted a couple of sessions already, but I was hoping to get some feedback from the community at large about what you think I should submit topics on.
I've submitted a couple of SQL Service Broker sessions, as...
