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• T-SQL Tuesday #004: Real World SSD’s

  A contribution for T-SQL Tuesday #004 , hosted by the illustrious Mike Walsh! In the past few weeks I had some correspondence with Kendal Van Dyke leading up to his SQL Saturday presentation on SSDs, and he got me fired up to share a little of my team’s Read More... Posted Monday, March 08, 2010 9:22 PM by merrillaldrich | 4 Comments Filed under: performance, san, Solid State Disks, Storage Design

• SAN 101 for the DBA

  As will become apparent from this post, I am no Storage Admin. My apologies for offending the sensibilities of those who know this topic better than I do! I get asked occasionally about placing SQL Server data on SAN storage, and I've done it with a few Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 16, 2010 3:45 PM by merrillaldrich | 1 Comments Filed under: performance, san, Storage Design

• Choices in physical storage design – EAV Case Study

  Partitioning for Fun and Profit Over the past year or so I’ve been playing with a toy SQL monitoring application, just to sharpen my dev skills a bit. Part of the app is a SQL database to store historical performance data, in order to do trending. Fooling Read More... Posted Monday, November 23, 2009 5:30 PM by merrillaldrich | 0 Comments Filed under: performance, Storage Design