Year 2011 was a year of learning and opportunity for me. My recent book, SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers, has received such overwhelming love and support from all of you. While writing the book, I had two simple goals: (1) Master the Basics and (2) Ignite Learning. There was a constant request from the Community to take the learning of these books to [...]
These days if you get a new server-class machine to run SQL Server, you can almost be 100% sure that it’ll be running on NUMA hardware. The current AMD Opteron and Intel Nehalem-based processors are all built on some form of NUMA architecture. The current consensus is that as the number of processors grows, their shared memory bus can easily get congested and becomes a major impediment to scalability. NUMA hardware solves this scalability challenge by dividing the processors into groups, with each...(read more)
My 4yo son keeps asking me why I should leave home so often to attend SQL conferences around the world and today, after a couple of days of snow, he discovered a good reason, along with the best place for the SQLBits scarf....(read more)Year 2011 was a year of learning and opportunity for me. My recent book, SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers, has received such overwhelming love and support from all of you. While writing the book, I had two simple goals: (1) Master the Basics and (2) Ignite Learning. There was a constant request from the Community to take the learning of these books to [...]Year 2011 was a year of learning and opportunity for me. My recent book, SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers, has received such overwhelming love and support from all of you. While writing the book, I had two simple goals: (1) Master the Basics and (2) Ignite Learning. There was a constant request from the Community to take the learning of these books to [...]Year 2011 was a year of learning and opportunity for me. My recent book, SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers, has received such overwhelming love and support from all of you. While writing the book, I had two simple goals: (1) Master the Basics and (2) Ignite Learning. There was a constant request from the Community to take the learning of these books to [...]Year 2011 was a year of learning and opportunity for me. My recent book, SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers, has received such overwhelming love and support from all of you. While writing the book, I had two simple goals: (1) Master the Basics and (2) Ignite Learning. There was a constant request from the Community to take the learning of these books to [...]
I see a lot of people suggest while loops instead of cursors in situations where row-based processing is required (or, at least, where folks think that row-based processing is required). Sometimes the justification is that constructing a while loop is simpler and more straightforward than constructing a cursor. Others suggest that a while loop is faster than a cursor because, well, it isn't a cursor. Of course the underlying mechanics still represent a cursor, it's just not explicitly stated that...(read more)Community is the most motivating force for me. I have often found situations where I have done more and better things because there was community around me. My latest book SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers is the result of the community’s support and love. Without the wide acceptance of the community I would have [...]Year 2011 was a year of learning and opportunity for me. My recent book, SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers, has received such overwhelming love and support from all of you. While writing the book, I had two simple goals: (1) Master the Basics and (2) Ignite Learning. There was a constant request from the Community to take the learning of these books to [...]
We are told that SQL Server 2008 R2 Audit (and SQL Server 2008 Audit) has much less performance overhead than SQL Trace when we try to capture the same information. Knowing how SQL Server R2 Audit is implemented (i.e. on top of the extended events infrastructure), I’ve always taken that as a given and never bothered to check it out. Recently, I had to capture some object access information, and it turned out that SQL Audit was not the most convenient tool for the task. I had to go back to SQL Trace....(read more)Year 2011 was a year of learning and opportunity for me. My recent book, SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers, has received such overwhelming love and support from all of you. While writing the book, I had two simple goals: (1) Master the Basics and (2) Ignite Learning. There was a constant request from the Community to take the learning of these books to [...]Year 2011 was a year of learning and opportunity for me. My recent book, SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers, has received such overwhelming love and support from all of you. While writing the book, I had two simple goals: (1) Master the Basics and (2) Ignite Learning. There was a constant request from the Community to take the learning of these books to [...]
THE SQL Server Blog Spot on the Web Welcome to SQLblog.com The SQL Server blog spot on the web Sign in Join Help in Buck Woody Entire Site Search Home Blogs Forums Downloads Opml Buck Woody Carpe Datum Team Foundation Server TFS in the Cloud My Experience So Far I recently joined a software development project that involves not only myself and other internal Microsoft employees , but a partner and a customer as well . We are building a hybrid solution that uses assets on premises as well as Windows Azure for processing . When we put the team together we picked a methodology Agile for the project we use multiple methodologies at Microsoft whatever the project needs and then we started talking about Source Control . We’re all comfortable with various tools for check-in-check-out , branching 
This one is quite subjective, and I'm sure I will face plenty of opposition - not only because it's a preference thing and many people are married to their preferences, but also because it violates the strict interpretation of the standard. Personally, I'm more worried about the former than the latter - I have no concerns whatsoever that SQL Server will eradicate the = notation for column aliases, nor do I worry that the code I write needs to work when ported to Oracle, DB2, MySQL, etc. (I highly...(read more)Year 2011 was a year of learning and opportunity for me. My recent book, SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers, has received such overwhelming love and support from all of you. While writing the book, I had two simple goals: (1) Master the Basics and (2) Ignite Learning. There was a constant request from the Community to take the learning of these books to [...]
Recently, I have been looking into the performance impact of enabling hyperthreading on various platforms with various SQL Server workloads. All the results I have shared so far are from a DL580 G7 with four Westmere-EX (E7-4870) processors. Overall, the results of enabling hyperthreading have been positive for both the tested reporting queries and the tested OLTP queries, although I did run into one exception where a reporting query workload performed better without hyperthreading . In all...(read more)Year 2011 was a year of learning and opportunity for me. My recent book, SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers, has received such overwhelming love and support from all of you. While writing the book, I had two simple goals: (1) Master the Basics and (2) Ignite Learning. There was a constant request from the Community to take the learning of these books to [...]
Is your SQL Server running slower than you’d like? Is it your SQL Server configuration or your slightly old hardware? We need to use tools to gather information. My subjective impression is that my 2.2 GHz laptop outperforms my 3.0 GHz overclocked desktop in CPU bound tasks. Both are quad core machines. The desktop has a first generation quad and the laptop has a second generation quad core processor. To introduce objectivity, PassMark’s Performance Test was used to benchmark the two machines. If...(read more)Year 2011 was a year of learning and opportunity for me. My recent book, SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers, has received such overwhelming love and support from all of you. While writing the book, I had two simple goals: (1) Master the Basics and (2) Ignite Learning. There was a constant request from the Community to take the learning of these books to [...]
THE SQL Server Blog Spot on the Web Welcome to SQLblog.com The SQL Server blog spot on the web Sign in Join Help in Buck Woody Entire Site Search Home Blogs Forums Downloads Opml Buck Woody Carpe Datum Bug-Out Bags and Cloud Architecture Considerations I served in the U.S . Military for a while , and as part of my training we had to maintain a Bug-Out Bag” , which was a large duffle-bag full of certain items that we could live on fight with in an emergency . I’ve carried the spirit of that idea forward with me into civilian life , in Florida and especially here in the Pacific . Northwest In Florida we dealt with the threat of hurricanes I went through four of those in one year that hit my area . You’re without power , it floods quickly , and it gets wicked hot . You roof might be gone ,
THE SQL Server Blog Spot on the Web Welcome to SQLblog.com The SQL Server blog spot on the web Sign in Join Help in Argenis Fernandez Entire Site Search Home Blogs Forums Downloads Opml Argenis Fernandez On the Topic of Lost SA Passwords on SQL Server 2000 Since it looks like everything I blog about lately is showing how to get onto SQL instances to which you don’t have formal credentials , I figured what the heck let’s do a post on SQL 2000. Earlier on today Saurabh Sapra twitter sent a tweet to SQL Server MVP Thomas LaRock blog twitter To which Tom : replied I was flattered . But I had no posts on that subject . So in turn , I : replied It turns out that it is straightforward . And I will show you how to do just that recover the SA password of a SQL 2000 instance . It’s easier than youYear 2011 was a year of learning and opportunity for me. My recent book, SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers, has received such overwhelming love and support from all of you. While writing the book, I had two simple goals: (1) Master the Basics and (2) Ignite Learning. There was a constant request from the Community to take the learning of these books to [...]Year 2011 was a year of learning and opportunity for me. My recent book, SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers, has received such overwhelming love and support from all of you. While writing the book, I had two simple goals: (1) Master the Basics and (2) Ignite Learning. There was a constant request from the Community to take the learning of these books to [...]Year 2011 was a year of learning and opportunity for me. My recent book, SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers, has received such overwhelming love and support from all of you. While writing the book, I had two simple goals: (1) Master the Basics and (2) Ignite Learning. There was a constant request from the Community to take the learning of these books to [...]Year 2011 was a year of learning and opportunity for me. My recent book, SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers, has received such overwhelming love and support from all of you. While writing the book, I had two simple goals: (1) Master the Basics and (2) Ignite Learning. There was a constant request from the Community to take the learning of these books to [...]
Export SQL Server Tables to Excel Files DynamicallyYear 2011 was a year of learning and opportunity for me. My recent book, SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers, has received such overwhelming love and support from all of you. While writing the book, I had two simple goals: (1) Master the Basics and (2) Ignite Learning. There was a constant request from the Community to take the learning of these books to [...]
An exciting solution I found last year (2011) for SQL Server performance acceleration is SafePeak. Designed to specifically to accelerate and tune performance of cases where you have minimum control on the applications, like 3rd party line of business applications. SafePeak performs automated caching of queries and procedures results, returning with very high speed results [...]Year 2011 was a year of learning and opportunity for me. My recent book, SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers, has received such overwhelming love and support from all of you. While writing the book, I had two simple goals: (1) Master the Basics and (2) Ignite Learning. There was a constant request from the Community to take the learning of these books to [...]Year 2011 was a year of learning and opportunity for me. My recent book, SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers, has received such overwhelming love and support from all of you. While writing the book, I had two simple goals: (1) Master the Basics and (2) Ignite Learning. There was a constant request from the Community to take the learning of these books to [...]Year 2011 was a year of learning and opportunity for me. My recent book, SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers, has received such overwhelming love and support from all of you. While writing the book, I had two simple goals: (1) Master the Basics and (2) Ignite Learning. There was a constant request from the Community to take the learning of these books to [...]Year 2011 was a year of learning and opportunity for me. My recent book, SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers, has received such overwhelming love and support from all of you. While writing the book, I had two simple goals: (1) Master the Basics and (2) Ignite Learning. There was a constant request from the Community to take the learning of these books to [...]
Last month I described the extension framework that allows one to easily add functionality to an expressor Studio installation. I then used this added functionality – the input and output operators to SalesForce.com – to develop an example application. But expressor has a second mechanism that allows you to easily enhance the functionality of your installation – [...]Year 2011 was a year of learning and opportunity for me. My recent book, SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers, has received such overwhelming love and support from all of you. While writing the book, I had two simple goals: (1) Master the Basics and (2) Ignite Learning. There was a constant request from the Community to take the learning of these books to [...]Year 2011 was a year of learning and opportunity for me. My recent book, SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers, has received such overwhelming love and support from all of you. While writing the book, I had two simple goals: (1) Master the Basics and (2) Ignite Learning. There was a constant request from the Community to take the learning of these books to [...]