Information Overload ??
As I've remarked before the profusion of Blogs ( from the various Microsoft teams and individuals ) whilst
exposing so much more information then we ever had before also requires you to almost spend all your time just
checking every blog you can find every day, and that's assuming you actually found the blog in the first place.
In SQL Server World we tend to direct our attentions to SQL Server blogs, I'll list most of the ones I have
bookmarked, however as I've also pointed out before SQL Server actually runs on windows which runs on various
manufacturer's hardware, attaches to various types of storage and may or may not be clustered.
All of these elements may or may not affect SQL Server, there's been a number of w2k3 patches for "bugs" which
affect SQL Server and I'm sure anyone with HP hardware will be aware of the "lights out" problem, I know this
isn't an isolated incident.
x64 deployments have also brought some people grief, It's been interesting to try to dispel some of the myths
around x64, some of which are frankly very worrying; I still see an almost endless stream of posts about memory
configuration for both x32 and x64 with so often the solutions/advice being totally incorrect. Personally I'd
have thought x32 memory configuration wasn't a problem any more, but I know I'm wrong here.
Anyway the purpose of this post is to direct you to some non SQL Blogs which may prove both interesting and
educational.
so you should read this if you have x64 ( along with my posts < grin > )
http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/archive/2008/03/25/lock-pages-in-memory-do-you-really-need-it.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage
and you should bookmark these:-
http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/ Windows Performance
http://blogs.msdn.com/ntdebugging/ Windows Advanced troubleshooting
http://blogs.technet.com/askcore/ Windows Core
http://blogs.technet.com/networking/ Networking
http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/ Windows Server
http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering/ Clustering
SQL Blogs:-
http://denster.spaces.live.com/
http://blogs.msdn.com/craigfr/default.aspx
http://sqlblog.com/blogs/linchi_shea/default.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/mssqlisv/default.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlcat/
http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/
http://blogs.msdn.com/psssql/
http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlprogrammability/
http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlperf/
https://blogs.msdn.com/sqlserverstorageengine/default.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlqueryprocessing/default.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlrsteamblog/Default.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/bimusings/
This is only a selection of SQL Blogs so apologies if I've ommitted your blog.