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SQL CAT New Whitepaper: Data Compression: Strategy, Capacity Planning and Best Practices by Sanjay Mishra, et al.

Data Compression: Strategy, Capacity Planning and Best Practices Hot off the presses, the SQL CAT team has just published a new whitepaper for which I had the opportunity to provide a technical review. The author is SQL CAT best practices maven Sanjay Read More...

Posted 29 May 09 02:07 by Jimmy May | 1 Comments   
Filed under Best Practices, Performance, SQL Server, SQL CAT, Architecture, Scalability

New Article on SQL CAT: Initializing a Transactional Replication Subscriber from an Array-Based Snapshot by Benjamin Wright-Jones

Preamble I had the opportunity to perform a tech review of a very cool article by Benjamin Wright-Jones : Initializing a Transactional Replication Subscriber from an Array-Based Snapshot The array of geekly luminaries who contributed include SQL CAT members Read More...

Posted 15 May 09 12:19 by Jimmy May | 0 Comments   
Filed under SQL Server, /faster, SQL CAT, Architecture, Scalability

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   
Filed under Best Practices, SQL Server, /faster, SQL CAT, Scalability, Hyper-V

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