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September 2008 - Posts

SQL PASS 2008 Just may be the best PASS Conference yet
Coming up this November 18-21 st is the SQL PASS Conference in Seattle, WA (right in Microsoft’s backyard). See http://summit2008.sqlpass.org/ for all the details. This SQL PASS will be very special. The SQL Server engineering team is sending up to 300 Read More...
Posted: Friday, September 26, 2008 12:30 AM by marksou | 2 Comments
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Scaling Heavy Network Traffic with Windows
Under Windows Server 2000 and 2003 (RTM), the interrupts from a single network adaptor (NIC) cannot be handled by multiple CPU Cores. A Deferred Procedure Call (DPC) call gets scheduled to run as a consequence of the NIC firing an interrupt. The DPC will Read More...
Posted: Thursday, September 18, 2008 9:08 PM by tkejser | 2 Comments
IIF Function Query Hints in SQL Server Analysis Services 2008
Thomas Kejser and I are doing some work to produce the SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Performance Guide. Among a bunch of other things, it discusses the IIF function. But because I recently mentioned MDX query hints in a recent podcast, I wanted to Read More...
Posted: Thursday, September 04, 2008 12:01 AM by richtk | 3 Comments
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