October 2006 - Posts

• CHECKDB (Part 6): Consistency checking options for a VLDB

  (Yippee - just finished my certification dives and got my PADI Open Water certification - just in time for our dive trip to Indonesia in December :-) This is a question that comes up a lot - in fact 3 times this week already - most recently during a guest Read More... Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 3:57 AM by Paul Randal - MSFT | 9 Comments Filed under: DBCC, Disaster Recovery, DBCC CHECKDB Series

• Final TechEds of the year coming up in November

  It's been a little hectic since I came back from the China/Hong Kong trip. I've been spending a lot of time getting decks ready for more TechEds and an internal training program. I've also been doing a course to get my PADI Open Water Diver certification Read More... Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 8:17 PM by Paul Randal - MSFT | 1 Comments Filed under: TechEd 2006

• SQLIOSim available for download

  There has already been a great deal of excitement over the release of SQLIOSim, and I know everyone is hungry for more details. First the final cut of SQLIOSim is available for download at the Microsoft Download center. http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/8/0/3804cb1c-a911-4d12-8525-e5780197e0b5/SQLIOSimX86.exe Read More... Posted Friday, October 06, 2006 9:08 AM by JHalmans | 8 Comments Filed under: SQL Server IO