Developer hearted / Relational minded : ADO.NET

Need more spare time ? Use SQLIOSimParser to interpret your IO results !

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:14:45 GMT

My colleague Marvelous Jimmy ( JimmyMay ) and myself did a small project to parse and interpret the results of the testing tool SQLIO. It produces ready-to-interpret reports and reusable results in Excel and will save you (as of Jimmy) much time...(read more)

Getting feedback / progress from batches and stored procedures

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Mon, 11 May 2009 12:42:00 GMT

Ever wanted to get feedback and interim results like a progress from a stored procedure ? Well, not that easy as the results such as PRINT information is send after the batch has been completed. If you want to get information back from your batches you...(read more)

When is random “random enough” ?

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:19:00 GMT

An interesting question came up in a private conversation. If you want to pick a random value from a random generated result set and want to make sure that the row is really random, is the known ORDER BY NEWID() really random enough ? The point is that...(read more)

Checking Failover after setting up a Database Mirroring

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:40:00 GMT

If you use database mirroring, the essence is that you use an additional connection property which is called “Failover partner” to make the client aware that it can try to connect to another server. If the principal went down or you lost connection to...(read more)