Follow the rest of this series at the Can You Dig It? - Plan Cache series introduction post. She can dig it! D Sharon Pruitt In the lead in to this post, I talked about how the plan cache can be a gold mine of information. There are a number of places that one can … Continue reading Can You Dig It? – Parallelism in the Plan Cache
Follow the rest of this series at the Can You Dig It? - Plan Cache series introduction post. She can dig it! D Sharon Pruitt In this new series of posts, I plan to investigate the SQL Server plan cache. We’ll start with a little introduction of the plan cache and move into ways in … Continue reading Can You Dig It? – The Plan Cache
The PASS Summit is complete and we got what we asked for from David Dewitt. He spoke on the third day of the PASS Summit and received quite the applause when his presentation ended. David Dewitt came to us at the request of the community. When he was mentioned at an MVP meeting on there … Continue reading David Dewitt at the PASS Summit
Last week, a new white paper was released that discusses supportability roadmaps for ISVs. The white paper is Testing and Developing Supportability Roadmaps for Independent Software Vendor Applications. What a mouthful… aren’t you glad you aren’t working at an ISV? Well, even if you aren’t I’d recommend reading this white paper because it applies to … Continue reading White Paper of Supportability Roadmaps
Time for another T-SQL Tuesday and this time I'll finish my entry in time. This month we are talking about why DBA skills are necessary. Definitely a topic right up my alley since I've been having discussions along these lines with peers and co-workers for some time now. a.k.a. What You Don't Know Can Hurt … Continue reading Why are DBA skills necessary? #TSQL2sDay
Conference Time! The SSWUG Fall 2010 Virtual Conference is starting today. It’ll go on from today through Friday – if might be getting late but you can still attend the conference. It doesn’t matter if you are in the comforts of your living room, office, or couch. You can still sit back where ever you … Continue reading SSWUG Fall 2010 Virtual Conference Starts Today!
Conference Time! The SSWUG Fall 2010 Virtual Conference is coming up this week. On October 20-22, you can attend a conference from the comforts of your living room, office, or couch. And while you are at it you’ll get to sit in on some incredible presentations, interaction with speakers, and chat with other attendees. All … Continue reading SSWUG Fall 2010 Virtual Conference This Week
Conference Time! The SSWUG Fall 2010 Virtual Conference is coming up. On October 20-22, you can attend a conference from the comforts of your living room, office, or couch. And while you are at it you’ll get to sit in on some incredible presentations, interaction with speakers, and chat with other attendees. All of this … Continue reading SSWUG Fall 2010 Virtual Conference This Month
Some of my clients and I have been waiting on this for a little while – SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 has been released. It includes resolutions for 21 issues and the inclusion of fixes for 61 issues previously resolved. Along with the resolution of those issues, Service Pack 2 includes a few new … Continue reading SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Released
Yes, it is. As I mentioned a few months back, it is important to pay attention to when Microsoft releases Cumulative Updates for SQL Server. This past week, on Tuesday, Microsoft release an update to SQL Server 2008: Cumulative update package 10 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 If you haven’t, take the time … Continue reading Is It that Time Again?
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