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 experience with a real implementation. Over the past four months or so, our IT group at work ...

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 systems, and a lot of smart people helping me, so here's a SAN 101 crib sheet for DBAs ...

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 with the design of the performance database allowed me to look at EAV (Entity Attribute ...