LearnItFirst.com hosts its IT training videos over at Rackspace and, due to unknown issues, the LearnItFirst site is unavailable due to Rackspace being down. 2009 hasn’t been the smoothest year for Rackspace – this makes the fourth big Rackspace outage of the year. June 29, 2009 – power failures at...
These are my bookmarks this week! Sorry there aren’t too many – it’s getting close to the holidays and this is my last one of the year. Have a great holiday season! Database Related Design of a Reporting System Vin@yard Programming Related Search Engine Optimization Toolkit from MSFT Sysadmin Related...
These are my bookmarks this week! Database Related Tuning options for SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 when running in high performance workloads Why Should You Convert Your Script Task into a Custom Task? PowerPivot Knowing the Relative Value of Databases SQL Server 2008 R2 gets an official due...
These are my bookmarks this week! Database Related Suggested Max Memory Settings for SQL Server 2005/2008 Donald Farmer’s SQLBits Keynote on Using PowerPivot What chart type should I use in my Reporting Services report? DTLoggedExec 0.2.3.0 beta published! Programming Related Visual Studio 2010 – a First Look An Introduction to...
Database Related SQL Server 2008 R2 New Features Efficient database queries in SQL SQL Server memory usage Entity-Attribute-Value (EAV) model SQL Server 2008 R2’s StreamInsight CTP download Playing Around with SQL Azure and SSMS Database Engine Tuning Advisor and the Query Optimizer Programming Related jQSlickWrap - Slick text wrapping for...
Went to a cabin in Oklahoma for part of last week and I didn’t think about tech too much so this week’s links are “light”! Database Related Database Mirroring Freak Show November CTP of SQL Server 2008 R2 New in SQL Server 2008 R2: Backup Compression no longer “Enterprise Only”!...
Recently Microsoft announced the new SQL Server 2008 R2 pricing and a lot of people wondered, "Why such big price increases?" There are the new "premium" editions - Datacenter and Parallel Data Warehouse - which are priced at more than $50,000 per processor but what caught my eye is the...
I have only a few bookmarks this week – I’ve been hard at work recording new SSIS 2008 training videos! Database Related TSQL script: Show upcoming jobs Statistics Used by the Query Optimizer in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Microsoft to raise prices, add more high-end editions with SQL Server 2008...
Here’s a dump of last week’s links and then it’s back to recording my new 2008 Integration Services video tutorials! I had a ton of links this week and, since this past week featured the public launch of Windows 7, many of my links are related: Database Related Scalable Shared...
Today I was working in the offline Google Adwords Editor and noticed what appeared to be a bug in 7.5.2: I could not find a way to open a previously saved search. I've used this feature countless times in previous editions but either (a) I can't remember how to do...
