High-end backup compression numbers
On Tuesday we had a look around our customer's data centers here in Austria – hidden away in the labryinthine bowels of a very large
On Tuesday we had a look around our customer's data centers here in Austria – hidden away in the labryinthine bowels of a very large
During early SQL Server 2008 development, the Storage Engine team introduced additional minimally-logged functionality. And then it was removed again for RTM. Now it seems
It's been almost exactly a week since the last post – an unusually long time for me. Kimberly and I were teaching the first week
The sparse columns feature in SQL Server 2008 is generating lots of interest from people looking to deploy extensible schemas. I've seen a few questions
One of our customers (and friends!) sent us this last week – a stark reminder why hardware redundancy is a good idea! The controller
Very exciting! The SQL Server 2008 Internals book we're working on with Kalen is now available to pre-order on Amazon, ahead of the planned
The feature article on SQL Server 2008: Tracking Changes in Your Enterprise Database I wrote for the November issue of TechNet Magazine is live on the web. It
Thanks for your patience while our blog engine back-end was updated. You should find that the response time is much better now. You'll notice that
Just found out that the 25-page FILESTREAM whitepaper I wrote recently for the SQL team has been published on MSDN. You can get it
Just a quick post to say that all our blogs and the SQLskills.com website is moving to a new software backend this coming Wednesday through
I finally got to take Kimberly to Scotland in September and show her some of the country where I was brought up. After spending 10
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