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• Review of Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Query Tuning and Optimization

  SQL performance tuning is probably one of those things you can do to really make a HUGE difference in performance. Let’s put this in perspective: take a typical application, if you can improve the performance by 100% then you really made a huge improvement. Read More... Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 4:20 PM by Denis Gobo | 4 Comments Filed under: Book, review, SQL Server 2005

• Christmas Is Coming Early This Year

  Note from my manager: "All, It looks like we have some book money left for this year that we can spend. Please select 2 books each that you have wanted and send the titles to me and I’ll get them on the list." Very nice, I picked the following two books Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 06, 2007 1:14 PM by Denis Gobo | 5 Comments Filed under: Book, SQL Server 2005

• Interview With Kalen Delaney About Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Query Tuning and Optimization

  I am a big fan of Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005 The Storage Engine so when I saw that yet another book got published in this series I just had to check it out. Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: Query Tuning and Optimization is very well written gets Read More... Posted Monday, October 15, 2007 10:58 AM by Denis Gobo | 4 Comments Filed under: Book, Interview, Performance, Performance Tuning, SQL Server 2005, Tuning

• Becoming A Better Programmer In 6 Months: The First 20 days

  Here is an update of what I accomplished in the first 20 days Read the book lifehacker Read the book Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services Read the book Extending SSIS 2005 with Script Read 1 chapter of Learning Python, Second Edition Played Read More... Posted Monday, August 06, 2007 11:55 AM by Denis Gobo | 3 Comments Filed under: Better Developer, Book, Django, Extreme Programming, PostgreSQL, Python, SQL Server 2008, SSIS

• Becoming A Better Programmer In 6 Months: The First 10 days

  Here is an update of what I accomplished in the first 10 days Read the book lifehacker Read the book Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services Read 126 pages of Extending SSIS 2005 with Script Installed PostgreSQL, Python, Eclipse and Django. Now Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 25, 2007 3:26 PM by Denis Gobo | 8 Comments Filed under: Better Developer, Book, Django, Extreme Programming, PostgreSQL, Python, SSIS

• Which SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services Book Should I Get?

  Who can recommend a good SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services book? I know SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services but did not work with SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services yet. As a matter of fact I haven’t touched Analysis Services in 2 years. I don’t need a book Read More... Posted Monday, June 18, 2007 10:40 AM by Denis Gobo | 8 Comments Filed under: Book, Dimensional Modeling, OLAP, Snowflake Schema, SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services, Star Schema