IE9 compiles JavaScript down into machine code. There are eleven subsystems which impact performance. The majority of time is spent in JavaScript and rendering on most sites, which don't use AJAX. A lot more time is spent on Rendering in AJAX...

IE9 compiles JavaScript down into machine code. There are eleven subsystems which impact performance. The majority of time is spent in JavaScript and rendering on most sites, which don't use AJAX. A lot more time is spent on Rendering in AJAX...

On a number of occasions I’ve been working with a customer on a scenario where we were adding some Ajax partial rendering support.. All too often demos for this scenario are over-simplified and only render a minimal amount of data. I’m guilty...

Just been going over the whitepaper ‘ Support for 15,000 partitions in Sql 2008 SP2′ which is now updated to be ‘and Sql 2008 R2 SP1′ – which is fortunate because: 1) it was updated in March this year, and 2) has a concrete...

Frequently a quick win in query tuning is to remove a bookmark, or key lookup. A key lookup occurs when we have to resolve another column that wasn’t part of the index used to satisfy the query. Frequently, Sql will avoid calling a bookmark lookup...