You've got questions, we've got answers. No, not Radio Shack - Twitter. Right now, no matter when you're reading this, there are people on Twitter who can answer quick questions for you. Thanks to an excellent idea by Aaron Nelson (Blog - @SQLVariant), it's even easier now. In this post, I'll show how ...
In my never-ending attempts to distract you from doing real work, I give you something you have absolutely no use for: a SQL Server database backup with about 100k tweets from people I've followed over the last couple of months. I use Tweet-SQL to cache and analyze a lot of things from Twitter. This ...
Here's my bookmarked links for October 26th through October 30th: SQL Server Links Windows Azure Platform Launch Update - The blog notes that "a number of new features in Windows Azure will be made available for the first time" - but it's at PDC, not the Professional Association for SQL Server Summit. This should be ...
If you groan when you read the words "social networking," you're in the right place. I'm a practical guy. If a tool doesn't help me get my job done better/faster/cheaper, I'm not interested in screwing around with it. Today, I'm going to explain how some social media tools help me, and why I don't bother screwing ...
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 ...
A few months back, Microsoft gave MVPs a few MSDN Ultimate subscriptions to pass on to community members, no strings attached. I quietly gave mine to a few deserving folks who I thought could be future MVPs, but Arnie Rowland (Blog – @ArnieRowland) had a better idea. Arnie’s Project Phoenix encourages developers to propose a [...]
Read More »A few months ago, I had The Idea. I wanted to conduct SQL Server training on a cruise ship. I emailed a few buddies and offered to start a company called SQLCruise with them, and out of three friends, only one could say yes. I don’t have anything against the two who said no. I [...]
Read More »Most SQL Server DBAs don’t even like MySQL, let alone NoSQL. They cringe when they hear people say things like, “I don’t need transactions” or “The data will eventually be consistent” or “Indexes will be supported in the next version.” SQL Server and Oracle people are constantly trying to out-feature each other, and the abject [...]
Read More »In August 2008, Lady Gaga released her premier album The Fame. This 13-track work produced several hit singles including Just Dance, Poker Face, and Paparazzi – but it also produced plenty of controversy. Her exaggerated use of fashion, musical cliches, and sex gave her plenty of media attention – both good and bad. If you’ve [...]
Read More »Pop quiz: should you be worried if your SQL Server’s page life expectancy is averaging 214? There’s only one correct answer: it depends.
Performance tuning is all about finding the RIGHT bottleneck, focusing on it, and fixing it to the application owner’s satisfaction. Learn what happens if you don’t do it right.
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