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A Rendezvous With Destiny: PASS 2009 (#sqlpass)
Rendezvous With Destiny Forty-five years ago, Ronald Reagan aka Ronaldus Magnus spoke to Americans of our rendezvous with destiny . In a few short days the SQL Community will rendezvous in Seattle for the PASS 2009 Summit . This time last year, eager Read More...
Posted 30 October 09 09:04 by Jimmy May | 2 Comments   
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SQLIOSim Parser by Jens Suessmeyer & Yours Truly
New! Improved! v.3.3.0 Now Available on CodePlex ! Preamble SQLIOSim Parser shreds the results of SQLIOSim.log.xml in seconds, allowing easier & more accurate interpretation of the output of SQLIOSim. SQLIOSim is a tool written by CSS Engineer Bob Read More...
Posted 27 September 09 10:32 by Jimmy May | 4 Comments   
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xPerf: Once I Was Blind and Now I See
I’ve been aware of the buzz around xPerf for quite some time.  I flagged emails from Microsoft Premier Field Engineers Clint Huffman (author of PAL ) & Shane Creamer (author of Vital Signs ) who in internal DLs both cited the tool way back in Read More...
Posted 08 September 09 11:10 by Jimmy May | 2 Comments   
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A World Without Google
If you’re reading this, you survived last week’s Google glitch. Learn more here about the events of Thursday morning, May 14, 2009: Frustration, distress over Google outage Verne Kopytoff, San Francisco Chronicle For the record, I interrogated the Internets Read More...
Posted 16 May 09 08:57 by Jimmy May | 2 Comments   
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A Language for Software Architecture by JD Meier in The Architecture Journal
J.D. Meier is a Principal Program Manager for Microsoft’s Patterns & Practices team.  He’s a great writer & a clear thinker.  J.D.’s Sources of Insight is devoted to getting results & balancing life. His latest-&-greatest publication Read More...
Posted 28 April 09 09:41 by Jimmy May | 0 Comments   
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MSDN Blog Box Beefed Up and SProcs Tweaked For New! Improved! User Experience
A few weeks ago Cindy Gross brought this tweet to my attention from SQL Server MVP Jason Massie : statisticsio : I should pdf the essential posts from @ aspiringgeek and sqlcat because everytime I really need them blogs.msdn.com is crawling. http://twitter.com/statisticsio/statuses/1377928792 Read More...
Posted 16 April 09 12:26 by Jimmy May | 4 Comments   
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SQL Server 2008 SP1: Available Now at an Internet Near You
The long-awaited SQL Server 2008 SP1 was just released, available at an Internet near you right NOW : SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 The SP includes CUs 1, 2, & 3 (not 4), including “Key improvements in SP1 include Slipstream, Service Pack Uninstall Read More...
Posted 09 April 09 05:01 by Jimmy May | 1 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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Perception, Reality, & Incrementally Tuning World-Class Applications
Performance & the 20% Rule I was reading the post from Ed Glas , Make Your Performance Work Count: The 20% Rule . He shared the words of computer science professor & billionaire entrepreneur David Cheriton: If it is fast and ugly, they will use Read More...
Posted 07 January 09 07:32 by Jimmy May | 6 Comments   
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Is Twitter the YouTube of 2008?
Always in pursuit of the elusive creature known as Work/Life Balance, I discard activities which monopolize my scarce bandwidth. I even struggled with tagging this post under "Productivity". Yet it struck me that Twitter was reaching critical mass, so Read More...
Posted 19 October 08 01:24 by Jimmy May | 3 Comments   
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