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I am honored to be the guest speaker at the Richmond SQL Server User Group on Monday, Sep 15. They usually have their meetings on the 2nd Thursday of the month, but they made a special exception. I will be speaking about SQL Server 2008 and Consolidation. Read More...
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Chuck Heinzelman and I are on the Advisory Board for the THRIVE Campaign by Microsoft. The THRIVE campaign is about getting people to use tools that they already own or are FREE to download in order to learn/enhance new skills. I thought right away about Read More...
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I presented a webcast on Wednesday on SQL Server Consolidation. As with many of my sessions (both physical and virtual), I like to ask several questions. This is NOT scientific, but it is anecdotal. Poll Question #1: Do you have SQL Server 2000 STILL Read More...
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I have been attending Teched every year since 2005. Last year, I really did not like the separation that was "forced" between IT Pro and Dev. I like to attend sessions from both areas - SQL covers both areas. I am glad they combined it this year (as it Read More...
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Last month, I spoke at a SQL Server Firestarter event in Charlotte. With just about every session that I speak at or webcast that I do since 2006, I always ask for a show of hands on two questions. The first is "How many people here are running SQL Server Read More...
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If you are in the Charlotte area, please come by for a FREE half-day event. You need to register first though at the following link: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032400468&Culture=en-US Here is what the schedule looks Read More...
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As virtualization grows stronger in the marketplace, the question of SQL Server performance and support on Virtual Machines appears more often. Bob Ward has a great post here . Enjoy! Read More...
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This past Tuesday, I was finally able to attend my local user group meeting. My travel schedule never seemed to match up with the meeting dates this year. It was good to see old friends and meet new faces. John Welch, SQL Server MVP, from Mariner presented Read More...
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I get several more "generic" IT mags sent to my home. I usually get them in an attempt to keep up with what is going on in the outside world. Typically, I look at the lead story and find a nugget or two in the rest. In my recent issue of TechNet magazine, Read More...
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Microsoft has publicly stated that SQL Server 2008 will RTM in Q3. It is Quarter 3 now. Where is it? :-) I'm sure that the final touches will now get taken care of now that Bill Gates is no longer a full-time MSFT employee. I'm sure that his "short-timer" Read More...
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Whenever I do a webcast or presentation, I always ask the audience to indicate where their organization is in relation to running SQL Server 2000 or running SQL 2005. Recently, in an audience of about 40 people, more than half of the audience still had Read More...
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If you have systems that are still on SQL Server 2000 and that you are preparing for SQL Server 2005, run the Upgrade Avisor for SQL Server 2008 as well. So, while you are under the hood of your database and app getting it ready for 2005, get it ready Read More...
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Again, I wanted to blog about something that still does not change between 2005 and 2008. At a recent conference, there were some great questions/ideas that should make it to Connect if they haven't already. When DB Snapshots were first introduced, one Read More...
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After spending the past couple of weeks at the MVP Summit in Seattle and at SQL Connections in Orlando, I thought I should blog about things that do not change in 2008 (at least partially). One of the reason s to partition your tables is to make it more Read More...
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In SQL Server 2008, you can have what is called a "Filtered Index". What does this mean? An index may be created for a subset of rows in your table. For instance you could create a filtered index for a "state" column if the value is "CA" for California; Read More...
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