Benchmarking: 1-TB table population (part 5: network optimization again)
Blog posts in this series: For the hardware setup I'm using, see this post. For an explanation of log growth and its effect on perf, see this
Blog posts in this series: For the hardware setup I'm using, see this post. For an explanation of log growth and its effect on perf, see this
Great news! Kimberly and I have started doing a bunch of work with SQL Server Magazine (of course we're already pretty heavily involved with their parent
Once in a blue moon I come across something cool and it happens to be Friday, and I blog about it. Last time was drinking
Way back in the mists of time, at the end of the last century, I wrote DBCC SHOWCONTIG for SQL Server 2000, to complement my
Back in January I offered a promotion as a way of introducing our maintenance/operations auditing services. Now I've completed a bunch of them, with some
Blog posts in this series: For the hardware setup I'm using, see this post. For an explanation of log growth and its effect on perf, see this
The March edition of TechNet Magazine is available on the web now and has the latest installment of my regular SQL Q&A column. This month's
Christmas comes but once a year… really? Then mine just came early on this afternoon's UPS truck. The very nice folks at Fusion-io just sent
Our first public class of the year is just over 3 weeks away! This is the *only* public class we'll be teaching in the US
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