SQL Server CRUD-Generation from System Views

If you are not keen on repetitive typing, you can still rapidly produce production-quality documented code by planning ahead and...

09 July 2010 16 min read

Laerte Junior

Gathering Perfmon Data with Powershell

When you have to routinely collect data from Performance Monitor Counters, it soon becomes easier and more convenient to use...

08 July 2010 14 min read

Fabiano Amorim

Showplan Operator of the Week – Row Count Spool

The Row Count Spool operator is a simple component in an execution plan that can make an enormous difference to...

06 July 2010 5 min read

Jaap Wesselius

Hyper-V R2 Live Migration on Server Core – Part I

If you're working with Hyper-V, it's recommended that you use Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core for your root partition,...

06 July 2010 12 min read

Michael Francis

2010 Pseudo-Archiving

You’ve probably gathered that Exchange Server 2010 has introduced the “personal archive”. It sounds exciting, but it is essentially just...

05 July 2010 2 min read

Damon Armstrong

Performance Considerations: Binary Serialization Efficiencies

We were meeting with a client recently who was experiencing some major issues with performance with one of their key...

29 June 2010 3 min read

Louis Davidson

A problem I must solve about speaking

So I am back hotel (yeah, not I won’t be “back home” until the 4th most likely) after speaking in...

27 June 2010 4 min read

Tony Davis

The Land of Milk, Honey…and Blancmange

For many migrant Oracle DBAs, SQL Server, or at least its support structure, must seem like the Promised Land: here...

25 June 2010 3 min read

Fabiano Amorim

Operator of the Week – Index Spool

If you've ever wondered what happens to your queries if you're not conscientious about creating indexes, then Fabiano Amorim has...

25 June 2010 14 min read

Richard Morris

Tom Kyte: Geek of the Week

Tom Kyte's contribution to the AskTom column and site over ten years has been outstanding. Much of what he says...

24 June 2010 20 min read

Antoine Khater

Restoring Exchange Server 2010 using Windows Server Backup

In his previous article, Antoine Khater made sure that every Exchange SysAdmin knew how to backup their servers. Now that...

24 June 2010 8 min read

Jeremy Jarrell

Multi-Tier Performance Tuning with ANTS Performance Profiler 6

When you are developing a database application that, by its very nature, suffers from I/O bottlenecks, you need to get...

23 June 2010 7 min read

Jonathan Lewis

Oracle to SQL Server, Crossing the Great Divide, Part 3

We soon learn, in SQL Server, that heaps are a bad thing, without necessarily understanding how or why. Jonathan Lewis...

23 June 2010 15 min read

Bart Read

.NET Reflector Support: Does the .NET Reflector Visual Studio add-in work with Visual Studio Express?

Unfortunately the answer to this is no: the .NET Reflector add-in does not support Express editions of Visual Studio, and...

22 June 2010 1 min read

Joe Celko

Binary Trees in SQL

A number of hierarchies and networks are most convenently modelled as binary trees. So what is the best way of...

22 June 2010 13 min read

Alex Kuznetsov

Developing Modifications that Survive Concurrency

You can create a database under the assumption that SQL looks after all the problems of concurrency. It will probably...

22 June 2010 40 min read

Jaap Wesselius

What’s New in Exchange Server 2010 SP1?

The very latest and greatest incarnation of Exchange Server 2010, Service Pack 1 Beta, is now available for the public...

22 June 2010 6 min read

Robert Sheldon

UPDATE Basics in SQL Server

SQL Server's UPDATE statement is apparently simple, but complications such as the FROM clause can cause puzzlement. Bob Sheldon starts...

21 June 2010 17 min read

Laila Lotfi

Will HTML5 make Silverlight redundant?

One of the great features of Adobe AIR v2 that was launched this month was its support for some of...

18 June 2010 2 min read

Nick Harrison

Back to Basics: Wiring up a Web Application

In the third of a series on Web Application design, Nick turns his attention to the Model part of the...

18 June 2010 12 min read

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