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Jimmy May, Aspiring Geek: SQL Server Performance, Best Practices, & Productivity
Analyzing Storage Performance by Robert Smith on the Counter-of-the-Week (COTW) Blog
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In my role with MS IT's Assessment, Consulting, & Engineering ( A.C.E. ) team, I work with some of the best application perf engineers in the world. However, A.C.E. doesn't have a monopoly on talent; there are some great engineers throughout Microsoft...
Jimmy May, Aspiring Geek: SQL Server Performance, Best Practices, & Productivity
Office Outlook 2007 CU/HotFix f/u: "Best version of Outlook ever" per MS VP Will Kennedy
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This is a follow-up to last week's post in which I shared the fantastic perf enhancements in the latest-&-greatest Outlook 2007 Cumulative Update / HotFix. My post prompted a reply from Will Kennedy, Microsoft Corporate VP of Outlook & InfoPath...
Jimmy May, Aspiring Geek: SQL Server Performance, Best Practices, & Productivity
Disk I/O Case Study: Classic Case of SAN Over-Subscription
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SAN Over-Subscription There are a variety of challenges related to I/O performance. One common problem is "SAN Over-Subscription", which is characterized by the the following symptoms: High disk latency and Low IOPs & Throughput As MS...
Jimmy May, Aspiring Geek: SQL Server Performance, Best Practices, & Productivity
Things You Know Now
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Today Kevin Kline, Quest's #1 SQL guru, tagged me, challenging me to offer bits of wisdom to SQL n00bs—which I mean in a good way considering this describes me not all that many years ago. As I divine the lineage of the "Things You Know Now" thread, Mike...
Jimmy May, Aspiring Geek: SQL Server Performance, Best Practices, & Productivity
Office Outlook 2007 CU: Hurry-Up-&-Wait Demon of Delay Begone!
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over 3 years ago
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It's a beautiful day. For years now the been hurry-up-&-wait icon has plagued our productivity; the whirling dervish demon of delay has been ubiquitous. This is in part a personal productivity blog, & I'm thrilled to bring you some great news...
Jimmy May, Aspiring Geek: SQL Server Performance, Best Practices, & Productivity
Does Your Blog Wordle Up?
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over 3 years ago
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My multi-talented, java-enabled yet Windows-empowered friend Alik Levin of www.practicethis.com ( among other blogs ) subjected my blog to the machinations of www.wordle.net . Wordle creates "word clouds". Another friend, Bob "Roudy Bob" Roudebush...
Jimmy May, Aspiring Geek: SQL Server Performance, Best Practices, & Productivity
Architecture Journal: Green IT in Practice: SQL Server Consolidation in Microsoft IT
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over 3 years ago
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I'm a lucky guy. Besides the fact that I'm healthy, alive, & living on the planet earth "in interesting times" as the fortune cookie says, I had the opportunity to contribute to an article which appeared in the Green IT issue of The Architecture Journal...
Jimmy May, Aspiring Geek: SQL Server Performance, Best Practices, & Productivity
DST: It's About Time!
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over 3 years ago
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Daylight Saving Time, DST, has finally returned. We sprung forward yesterday. I love DST! For years here in Indiana I had no reason to celebrate. That changed recently. I was a proud member of the Hoosier Daylight Coalition, a grass roots organization...
Jimmy May, Aspiring Geek: SQL Server Performance, Best Practices, & Productivity
Disk I/O: Microsoft SQL Server on SAN Best Practices from SQL CAT's Mike Ruthruff (& Prem Mehra)
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While at the PASS Community Summit in November 2008, I had the pleasure of attending a handful of excellent presentations. One of the best was delivered by Mike Ruthruff (& not just because he shilled for my presentation on disk partition alignment...
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