I really never thought that I would be writing this post – honestly! After 1900th post and almost 5 years, this has been a journey and lots of learning. I get to write a 100 “mile stone” post 3-4 times a year, so I am happy to be writing this one. I am eagerly looking forward to my 2000th blog post as well.
SQLAuthority News – SQL Wait Stats Book – Available as Kindle eBook – October Special
Get SQL Wait Stats – Kindle Edition Last month I released my SQL Wait Stats book. This book is the beginning of my journey in wait stats. It has been extremely popular and so far in India it has sold all the print copies twice on Flipkart. This book is…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – CE – 3 Links to Performance Tuning Compact Edition
Today, I am going to do webcast online on how to improve performance for SQL CE. Here are three articles which I am going to base my session. Database Design and Performance (SQL Server Compact Edition) Use Database Denormalization Decide Between Variable and Fixed-length Columns Create Smaller Row Lengths Use…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – SQL Backup and FTP – A Quick and Handy Tool
Scroll down at the end of this post to win my SQL Wait Stats Book. I have used this tool extensively since 2009 at numerous occasion and found it to be very impressive. What separates it from the crowd the most – it is it’s apparent simplicity and speed. When…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Denali – DMV – sys.dm_os_windows_info – Information about Operating System
One more quick introduction to DMV for Denali. Following DMV provides information about Windows Operating System. Here is the quick example of the same. This DMV returns information about the operating system volume (directory) on which the specified databases and files are stored. Here is the quick example I have…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Denali – DMV – sys.dm_os_volume_stats – Information about operating system volume
SQL Server Denali has many new interesting feature – one of the interesting feature is New DMVs. This DMV returns information about the operating system volume (directory) on which the specified databases and files are stored. Here is the quick example I have created for the same. SELECT DB_NAME(f.database_id) DatabaseName,…
Read MoreSQLAuthority News – Various Ways to Stay in Touch with SQLAuthority.com – Best Practices
Social Media is growing and quite commonly we reach to the point where we have confusion about the various aspects of the same. I have written a previous article on this subject SQLAuthority News – Social Media Confusion – Twitter, FaceBook, LinkedIn and Me. I am present and active at…
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