There are countless sources for information on SQL Server available today. There are books, webcasts, conferences, and blogs. With all of these sources, it is easy to forget that there are white papers available from Microsoft. It is important that we make an effort to read the white papers that are available. The trouble is, … Continue reading 5 SQL Server White Papers Every DBA Should Read
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
If you talk to Sarah (twitter), she’ll tell you that I like lists. Lists are awesome – they are almost like non-structured data. They are hierarchies of information that I can work with. They are Data. Microsoft must have known I liked lists because over the weekend I discovered (see below) their SQL Server Best … Continue reading SQL Server Best Practice Whitepapers
One of SQL Server 2008 features I’ve been especially thrilled about is the Management Data Warehouse (MDW). Just recently, Microsoft released a white paper by Kalen Delany that goes into a bit a depth on MDW and covers some best practices and things to watch out for. Happy reading!
While working on some parallelism issues today I started using the query that detects whether there are queries currently running utilizing parallelism. It’s the same query that can be found in the white paper Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server 2005. Which I’ve included below: The information that I like to have on hand is … Continue reading Querying for Parallelism
I keep hearing this story and similar variations… ”On a dark and stormy night, I developed a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package. It worked wonderfully on my desktop development environment. All the files were properly accessed and the data was processed in a magnificent matter.” ”But suddenly I deployed the SSIS package to production … Continue reading Troubleshooting Permission Issues with CREDENITIALS
I was working through some performance issues on a "fun" table. A bit of half a billion rows and with some apparent I/O issues as the entire table is being read by some of the clients services to create an extract. In working through some of the performance bottlenecks, I found the following white paper … Continue reading Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server 2005
How quickly a week goes by... minute by minute... get a little busy and no blogs. Well, here's a quick link to a white paper on Online Index Operations in 2005. A very nice 2005 Enterprise feature that allows building and maintaining of indexes without sacrificing DML concurrency. Or in other words, how to keep … Continue reading SQL 2005 White Paper: Online Index Operations
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