I had a guy at work tell me that he'd read about turning AWE on for 64bit SQL. That sounded TOTALLY wrong to me, so I checked BOL, which says "AWE is not required and cannot be configured on 64-bit operating systems." I got all self-satisfied, but then I thought, I'd better check with the […]
Author: Jen McCown
PASS Summit Interview: Allen White
Our first night in Seattle, we sat down with Allen White: sooooper geniussss, MVP, and Scalability Experts dude. We talk about: Teaching SQL to Oracle people, and the major differences between the platforms. The answer to: What DB platform holds more corporate data than ANY other DB platform in the world? (You'll be surprised. I […]
PASS Summit Interview: Itzik Ben-Gan
Just a quick announcement today: If you've been following along, you know that Sean and I did several interviews with SQL Server authors, MVPs, and bigwigs at the PASS Community Summit last week in Seattle. Last night I published the first one, a nice long talk with Itzik Ben-Gan! Itzik writes for SQL Magazine and […]