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Xperf: Install Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT) with 242MB Download, Not 2.5GB Windows 7 SDK: Part 2
In my first post on Xperf , I described the simple 4.4MB download necessary to install the Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA) & the other tools which comprise the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT), including Xperf. I was surprised to learn that the Read More...
Posted 24 November 09 02:18 by Jimmy May | 1 Comments   
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Xperf: Install Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT) with 242MB Download, Not the Entire 2.5GB Windows 7 SDK: Part 1
Say It Ain’t So! In my first post on Xperf , I described the simple 4.4MB download necessary to install the Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA) & the other tools which comprise the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT), including Xperf. I was surprised Read More...
Posted 22 November 09 06:00 by Jimmy May | 1 Comments   
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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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Aspiring Geek Speaks This Week Yet Again: Perpetual Technologies (PTI) Back-to-School with Microsoft and Oracle Event
Yesterday I flew to Minneapolis to speak at PASS MN on disk partition alignment . I left for the airport immediately afterward to get home to Indianapolis in order to speak at Perpetual Technologies, Inc. ( PTI ) 2nd Annual Back to School with Microsoft Read More...
Posted 16 September 09 09:47 by Jimmy May | 0 Comments   
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Attachment(s): SQLIOParserWin_0.2.3.0.zip
Aspiring Geek Speaks This Week: PASS Minnesota
Greetings, my current colleague & former MVP Lara Rubbelke ( blog | twitter ) was gracious enough to invite me to speak this week at PASS Minnesota aka PASS MN . I’ll be reprising my spiel on Disk Partition Alignment , the Best Kept Secret in SQL Read More...
Posted 14 September 09 10:14 by Jimmy May | 0 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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sys.dm_db_index_operational_stats: Kick Your Assumptions: Part 1
A two-part tale in which your humble correspondent interrogates databases & Very Smart Persons (VSPs), & is forced to kick his ass- umptions regarding a popular DMF. Executive Summary Documentation for the DMF sys.dm_db_index_operational_stats Read More...
Posted 03 August 09 09:17 by Jimmy May | 0 Comments   
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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   
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Lured by Ward Pond, Chris Shaw’s Notorious SQL Quiz Ensnares Me In Its Web
SQL IT Operations Excellence IP Architect, colleague, & friend Ward Pond tagged me in a meme started by Chris Shaw (aka SQLShaw who originally tagged a whole lot of geeks including Thomas LaRock aka SQLRockster formerly SQLBatman (R.I.P.) & still Read More...
Posted 18 May 09 02:50 by Jimmy May | 1 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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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   
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Disk Partition Alignment (Sector Alignment): Make the Case: Save Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars
I recently collaborated with Microsoft PFE Daniel Janik to create a template to make the case for disk partition alignment. Perhaps your customers or stakeholders within your organization can benefit. This work was recently broadcast throughout PFE DLs Read More...
Posted 08 May 09 02:15 by Jimmy May | 1 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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Wait Stats by Joe Sack
Wait stats rock. As I shared recently with friends, when it comes to SQL Server performance, wait stats are the #1 arrow in my quiver, the first tool out of my toolbox, the Vera of guns (see the Firefly episode Our Mrs. Reynolds to divine that reference). Read More...
Posted 27 April 09 11:15 by Jimmy May | 2 Comments   
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Attachment(s): Joe Sack wait stats.sql
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