March 2009 - Posts

Analyzing Storage Performance by Robert Smith on the Counter-of-the-Week (COTW) Blog
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. Read More...
Posted 19 March 09 06:27 by Jimmy May | 0 Comments   
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Office Outlook 2007 CU/HotFix f/u: "Best version of Outlook ever" per MS VP Will Kennedy
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. Read More...
Posted 16 March 09 09:40 by Jimmy May | 1 Comments   
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Disk I/O Case Study: Classic Case of SAN Over-Subscription
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 PFE & fellow Read More...
Posted 15 March 09 09:21 by Jimmy May | 2 Comments   
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Things You Know Now
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 Read More...
Posted 13 March 09 03:58 by Jimmy May | 3 Comments   
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Office Outlook 2007 CU: Hurry-Up-&-Wait Demon of Delay Begone!
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 Read More...
Posted 12 March 09 10:58 by Jimmy May | 9 Comments   
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Does Your Blog Wordle Up?
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 , Windows Read More...
Posted 11 March 09 09:28 by Jimmy May | 4 Comments   
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Architecture Journal: Green IT in Practice: SQL Server Consolidation in Microsoft IT
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: Read More...
Posted 10 March 09 11:12 by Jimmy May | 1 Comments   
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DST: It's About Time!
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 Read More...
Posted 09 March 09 02:37 by Jimmy May | 7 Comments   
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Disk I/O: Microsoft SQL Server on SAN Best Practices from SQL CAT's Mike Ruthruff (& Prem Mehra)
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 Read More...
Posted 01 March 09 11:44 by Jimmy May | 3 Comments   
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