{"id":978,"date":"2008-11-25T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T10:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/Life-on-SQL-Server-2008-PASS-interview-with-a-large-scale-user.aspx"},"modified":"2017-04-13T09:54:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T16:54:11","slug":"life-on-sql-server-2008-pass-interview-with-a-large-scale-user","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/life-on-sql-server-2008-pass-interview-with-a-large-scale-user\/","title":{"rendered":"Life on SQL Server 2008 &#8211; PASS interview with a large-scale user"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">During the PASS Community Summit, Rick Heiges did an interview with Thomas Grohser, the Senior Database Engineer at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bwinparty.com\/?zoneid=ex35000&amp;zoneid=ex33001\">bwin Interactive Entertainment AG<\/a>, the world&#39;s largest online gambling company. This is the private client Kimberly and I were onsite with for a week last month in Vienna before heading to Barcelona for TechEd. In the interview, Thomas reveals some of the cool throughput statistics of their workload and his early impressions of SQL Server 2008.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font size=\"2\">Check it out on the PASS site (you&#39;ll need to register to view it) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlpass.org\/cerrors.htm?aspxerrorpath=\/LearningCenter\/TechnicalArticles\/articleType\/ArticleView\/articleId\/26.aspx\">here<\/a>.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font size=\"2\">(And here are&nbsp;my previous posts about their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/high-end-backup-compression-numbers\/\">backup timings<\/a>, and my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/vienna-churches-and-horses\/\">wanderings around Vienna<\/a>&nbsp;(long with lots of pictures))<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the PASS Community Summit, Rick Heiges did an interview with Thomas Grohser, the Senior Database Engineer at the bwin Interactive Entertainment AG, the world&#39;s largest online gambling company. 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