November 2007 - Posts

• Toad for SQL Server 3.2 is now GA

  This release of Toad for SQL Server includes major overall performance improvements allowing much faster query execution and data display. Other improvements in this release include: Enhanced query development and debugging with: “Error highlighting” Read More... Posted Friday, November 30, 2007 2:14 PM by KKline | 0 Comments Filed under: Quest Software

• Reading a SQL Server mini-dump

  I was recently trying to diagnose some problems in one of my SQL Servers when I ran across a problem that I hadn't encountered before involving 'nonyielding worker threads'. SQL Server also produced a dump for me to review. Unfortunately, the dump didn't Read More... Posted Monday, November 26, 2007 7:08 PM by KKline | 5 Comments Filed under: Internals, Tips

• Soliciting Feedback for the 3rd Edition of "SQL in a Nutshell"

  Kevin here. In the 2nd edition of my book "SQL in a Nutshell", I covered the latest ANSI SQL implementation, plus the full syntax and usage of the SQL commands for IBM's DB2 UDB, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. You can imagine how Read More... Posted Monday, November 26, 2007 12:03 PM by KKline | 15 Comments Filed under: Interoperability, SQL Programming

• Breakfast with Kevin in Seattle

  Quest is once again hosting one of my quarterly seminars this Wednesday, Nov 14, at the Seattle Hilton. The seminar is a free, half-day event focusing on scaling out VLDBs on SQL Server and on disk and IO tuning in a SQL Server 2005 environment. (It is not a sales or marketing pitch!) If you can spare some time on Wednesday morning, I'd love to see you there! More details at http://www.quest.com/events/ListDetails.aspx?ContentID=5962. Best regards, -Kevin Read More... Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 10:39 PM by KKline | 0 Comments Filed under: Quest Software, Speaking

• A Little Gem from Australia

  There's a great aggregation site for SQL Server information started by Rod Colledge called SQLCrunch.  I encourage you to take a look.  Any site or feed that makes me do less work instead of more work is good with me. Read More... Posted Thursday, November 08, 2007 4:58 PM by KKline | 1 Comments