Whitepaper on high-availability architectures published
The 20-page whitepaper I wrote this Spring for the SQL team has just been published.
The 20-page whitepaper I wrote this Spring for the SQL team has just been published.
Next Wednesday, June 9th, I'll be presenting at the monthly meeting of the PASS DBA
It's official! We're doing another 5-day SQL Immersion Event (our ever-popular SQL Server master-class) this
The top things YOU need to know about managing SQL Server –
I was teaching an internals/maintenance/performance class for Microsoft DBAs this week on the Redmond campus
[Edit March 2026: Everything in this post applies to all versions of SQL Server still.]
This evening I was reading an article in The Washington Post called Twelve Things The
In the previous post in the series I introduced SSDs to the mix and examined
The May edition of TechNet Magazine is available on the web now and has the
Well it's been almost 6 weeks since my last benchmarking blog post as I got side-tracked with
I’m starting a new blog category to talk about some of weird and confusing stuff
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