Here’s my bookmarked links for October 2nd through October 9th:
SQL Server Links
- When are you coming to xxx? – Steve Jones talks about the framework behind SQLSaturdays.
- SQL Server Certification Discounts – Get your certification for less.
- UStream Recap – PASS Board candidate Tom LaRock takes questions from the audience and answers ‘em.
- Some Updates and A Bit of Technical Content (Hyper-V/Live Migration/iSCSI) – Like Allan, I’m also hearing from more and more users running SQL Server with iSCSI.
- Bad habits to kick : using dashes and spaces in entity names – Good naming convention tips. Violate this list at your peril.
- Partitioning Tricks – Michelle Ufford talks about SQL Server table partitioning.
- Announcing the return of Ask SQLTeam – Bill Graziano is launching a StackOverflow-based SQL Server Q&A site on SQLteam.com.
- Tibor Karaszi : Table restore and filegroups – Thoughts on filegroup, file, and table restores.
- Why I prefer surrogate keys instead of natural keys in database design – Great introductory post by Mladen about an issue you wanna learn BEFORE you encounter it.
- Rebuilding Indexes vs. Updating Statistics – Explaining why you still need to update column statistics after doing index maintenance jobs.
- I’m totally going to crash the Quest event this Friday – Denny Cherry will be co-presenting with me in Aliso Viejo this week.
- It’s For Real Now – Tom LaRock, aka SQLRockstar, is writing a book!
- Random Thoughts for Enjoying the PASS Summit – Excellent list of recommendations for people going to any tech conference.
- Upcoming Seminar and SQL Saturday in Florida, Oct 13-17 – Kevin Kline lists his upcoming training events.
- Ad Hoc Queries Don’t Reuse Execution Plans: Myth or Fact – Grant Fritchey talks about parameterized queries.
- My Top 10 SQL Saturday Tips – Good tips if you have to coordinate any kind of technical event.
- 4 Weeks Away from the PASS Summit – Colin asks for tips on how to best enjoy the summit.
- Aaron Bertrand : More testing of Unicode Compression in SQL Server 2008 R2 – SQL Server 2008 R2′s compression yields smaller databases with marginally higher CPU overhead. (Make sure to read the graph labels – the CPU overhead isn’t as high as it looks.)
- Trace Analyzer for SQL Server | DBSophic – Free tool like ClearTrace to analyze SQL Server Profiler trace files.
- Why I’m Blogging Less – SQLFool has a bun in the oven!
- Today’s Coaching Lesson – Tom LaRock talks about management lessons he learned from coaching basketball.
Tech Links
- Introducing Stack Overflow Careers – Your StackOverflow profile is about to become your resume.
- Free VMware Player 3.0 RC Adds Ability To Create VMs – Bringing VMware Player closer to the capabilities of VMware Workstation.
- Dear Cade Metz, MVPs aren’t evangelists. – Denny Cherry takes issue with a recent post criticizing MVPs as being evangelists.
- Ankoder | Video Encoding – On Demand – Amazon EC2-based video encoding service for podcasters. Upload your video into your Amazon S3 bucket, and they’ll convert it into several formats automatically.
- Configuration of Hyper-V Live Migration – RUN DMC Style – How to set up Microsoft Windows Hyper-V’s equivalent of VMotion.
- Is cloud computing the Hotel California of tech? | The Open Road – CNET News – Funny way of pointing out the challenge with using cloud computing systems that aren’t open or standardized. For example, ever tried to move your Facebook data over to MySpace?
- Amazon Undercuts Windows Azure Table and SQL Azure Costs with Free SimpleDB Quotas – Sooner or later, there’s going to be a race to the bottom for database storage costs online.
- Lamest Computer Related Scenes Ever Filmed – David Stein compiled YouTube clips of some real doozies.
- Iomega ix2-200 Adds iSCSI, Sync To Dual-Drive SOHO NAS – Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat – $370 for 2tb raid 1 mirror with iSCSI, Time Machine support and more. Really impressive.
The Junk Drawer
- I Love That Game – Brilliant criminal minds at work.
- Twitter Data Analysis: An Investor’s Perspective – A bunch of oddball stats about Twitter users and their histories.
- Will Work for Whuffie? – Why you have to charge fees for speaking engagements when you hit a certain level of fame. (No, I’m not there yet, hahaha, but even if I was, my speaking engagements are free because I’m a service of Quest Software. No, not that kind of “service,” buddy.)
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