SQL Server Storage Engine

CHECKDB, User Groups and .NET Rocks!

A few things to cover with the first cup of coffee this morning before doing a meatier post or two later today.

First off - I've had a bunch of good responses to my CHECKDB runtime survey and I've got data on 66 databases ranging from 10.5GB up to 2.8TB. I'd like to get some more responses, and I have a lot more DVDs to send anywhere in the world so please take some time to respond. Some of the answers have been eye-opening and I'll blog on at least one facet of these later today. Depending on your answers and needs, we may be able to setup a 1-1 con-call to discuss issues around corruption detection and recovery.

Next up is user groups. As part of the same feedback program on CHECKDB, I've been asking around internal Microsoft aliases to get in touch with customers and out of that has come plans to do remote presentations at user groups around the world. Do you run a SQL Server user group and would be interested in a remote presentation from me or one of my team in the Storage Engine? If so, drop me a line at prandal@microsoft.com

Finally, a couple of weeks back I did a .NET Rocks! interview with Richard and Carl who I met at TechEd in Barcelona last year. It'll be released on their website March 6th and I talk a lot about CHECKDB, checksums, emergency mode repair and some of the daft things people do. We also ambush a special SQL community guest :-)

Published Wednesday, February 28, 2007 6:38 AM by Paul Randal - MSFT
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SimonS SQL Server Stuff - Microsoft SQL Server MVP said:

Paul Randal recently informed me of a new white paper on online index operations. The whitepaper can

March 16, 2007 11:37 AM
 

SimonS' SQL Server Stuff said:

Paul Randal recently informed me of a new white paper on online index operations. The whitepaper...

March 16, 2007 11:37 AM
 

PeterDS said:

Hi Paul, many thanks for your remote presentation to the Belgian Sql Server Community. We learned a lot an I would recomment this presentation to every DBA concerned with his/her databases (isn't this always the case ?). Many thinks and next time, we hope to get a life presentation !!

Peter for SQLUG.be

June 9, 2007 10:56 AM
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About Paul Randal - MSFT

Paul started in the industry in 1994 working for DEC on the VMS file system and check/repair tools. In 1999 he moved to Microsoft to work on SQL Server, specifically on DBCC. For SQL Server 2000, he concentrated on index fragmentation (writing DBCC INDEXDEFRAG and DBCC SHOWCONTIG) plus various algorithms in DBCC CHECKDB. During SQL Server 2005 development Paul was the lead developer/manager of one the core dev teams in the Storage Engine, responsible for data access and storage (DBCC, allocation, indexes & heaps, pages/records, text/LOB storage, snapshot isolation, etc). He also spent several years rewriting DBCC CHECKDB and repair. For SQL Server 2008, Paul managed the Program Management team for the core Storage Engine to become more focused on customer/partner engagement and feature set definition. In 2007, after 8.5 years on the SQL Server team, Paul left Microsoft to join his wife, Kimberly Tripp, running SQLskills.com and pursuing his passion for presenting and consulting. Paul regularly presents at conferences and user groups around the world on high-availability, disaster recovery and Storage Engine internals. His popular blog is at http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/.

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