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Thursday, November 05, 2009 9:58 AM

Learning New Tech on SQL Server Virtualization – From Vendors

I’m at PASS this year, and one of the things I’ve learned this time is that I can learn from – the vendors!  Most of the “big” names are here, like Idera, Redgate, Quest, and more, but I ran into some folks yesterday I hadn’t spoken with before –
Posted by Buck Woody | 1 Comments
Monday, November 02, 2009 6:28 AM

Win7 – Install SQL Server Native or go Virtual PC?

I have Windows 7 on my laptop, and I also teach, demo and use SQL Server 2005 and SQL server 2008. Should I install this “native” on my outside operating system or use the Virtual PC (VPC) software that comes with Windows 7? Well, there are arguments
Posted by Buck Woody | 0 Comments
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 7:14 AM

The 20 Queries

In the book “The Fourth Paradigm” , Jim Gray describes the modeling process he came up with modeling large databases. He was working with scientists, researchers and others, and the data sets they were generating were huge – terabytes of data at a time.
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Monday, March 30, 2009 7:39 AM

Security Patches and the Conficker Worm

Well, the media has done their usual stellar job on computer technology subjects, so after this weekend you may have gotten some questions about the Conficker worm. Here's a few pointers to hand out to the relatives and associates: Microsoft released
Posted by Buck Woody | 1 Comments
Monday, March 16, 2009 7:54 AM

Article on SQL Server Chargeback

I posted the first part of the article on SQL Server Chargeback strategies over on InformIT: http://www.informit.com/guides/content.aspx?g=sqlserver&seqNum=311 The big point to make is that you will have to develop this system yourself, since there
Posted by Buck Woody | 1 Comments
Monday, February 23, 2009 8:10 AM

SQL Server Chargeback?

Whenever economic situations change, the IT department has to adapt. The situation in many shops is that IT is a recurring cost, carried by the entire business. What that means is that your IT department is asked to service the entire organization, no
Posted by Buck Woody | 1 Comments
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 8:01 AM

Of Patterns and Practices

Does the data professional need to know about Patterns and Practices? Well, if you're on the development side of things, you're more than likely already familiar with this term. At the bottom it's a list of "best practices" that you use to solve
Posted by Buck Woody | 1 Comments
Thursday, January 22, 2009 10:21 AM

Is a Comprehensive Data Map Possible?

Most of us design a "CRUD" (Create, Read, Update and Delete) matrix for an application's database. And if you are really thorough, you create a data dictionary that shows what data goes where and why. The problem with these documents is that
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Wednesday, January 07, 2009 7:36 AM

Are You Archiving Your Data?

Computer technology has been a fixture of business now for several decades - but I'm not sure it's a "mature" industry yet. Sure, we have a few standards, and some dominant vendors and a strong workforce - all earmarks of a mature industry -
Posted by Buck Woody | 1 Comments
Monday, December 22, 2008 8:10 AM

Remote Connectivity

By now you've probably seen all the news reports about the bad weather , or perhaps you don't need the news - you're stuck in it as well. Here in Seattle we're simply not used to this kind of snow level down below the mountains. We have lots of steep
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Friday, April 18, 2008 8:58 AM

Meet the new boss, Same as the old boss...

In an article I read recently by Ian Bramley from Mainframe Executive Magazine, several advantages were put forth on why you should consider moving to or staying on mainframe applications. Many of these dealt with downtime and security, which I’ll capitulate
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 9:26 AM

Do we use the same tools and processes at Microsoft that you do?

I’ve spoken quite a bit about some of the processes and constraints we have in developing software here at Microsoft. I haven’t explained the actual tools or specific paradigms we follow. When some people come to work here, they are often surprised to
Posted by Buck Woody | 3 Comments
Friday, February 15, 2008 9:50 AM

Engineering or Manufacturing

From the metrics on this blog, I see that many of you are either software developers or are database administrators involved with developing software solutions, either for your own company or for sale. I have often seen the process of creating applications
Posted by Buck Woody | 7 Comments
Tuesday, January 08, 2008 9:28 AM

When the PC becomes the server

I was speaking with a friend yesterday about a requirement he has to separate the maintenance tasks running on his SQL Server from the regular user transactions. In specific, he wanted to throttle the reindexing tasks while users were on, since his shop
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