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19 November 2006 15:12

PASS 2006

Thanks to all at PASS for making this years event a great success. - google_ad_client = "pub-9351707026400773"; google_alternate_color="FFDDAA"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_type = "text_image...
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16 November 2006 10:31

PASS 2006 - Shared disk is not a scale out solution

At the end of the keynote today, Paul Flessner joined Steve Balmer for a short Q&A. One of the questions was around SQL Servers response to the Oracle RACK solution to provide a scale out solution. Paul's response was that the Oracle solution is not...
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16 November 2006 02:58

DMVs impact on performance

Bottom line is very little if any. The way the SQLOS has been rearchitected the dmvs have been built into at the lowest level. This means the data exists, it is not a virtual table that is built up when the dmv is queried. So go for it use the DMVs and...
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13 November 2006 01:15

PASS 2006 - Seattle

I arrived in Seattle yesterday along with some bods from Conchango and Darren Green (and tons more brits going to PASS). Bizarrely it was cheaper to get a limo to the hotel than a cab, go figure. So we got to the Hotel in style and managed then manage...
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08 November 2006 22:39

Are you going to PASS?

Then why not pop your details on this wiki page and we could see who can meet the most. http://wiki.sqlis.com/default.aspx/SQLISWiki/BodsGoingToPASS2006.html - google_ad_client = "pub-9351707026400773"; google_alternate_color="FFDDAA"; google_ad_width...
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