Sean and I will be speaking at SQL Saturday Houston on May 10, at San Jacinto College – South Campus 13735 Beamer Rd. Building 12 Houston, TX 77089 We have three sessions between the two of us: T-SQL Code Sins, Jen DBA Career Roadmap, Sean and Jen DIY Performance Reporting, Sean Remember that SQL Saturday events are […]
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Heartbleed bug: immediate security threat for both IT, and consumer sites and services
“An encryption flaw called the Heartbleed bug is already being called one of the biggest security threats the Internet has ever seen. The bug has affected many popular websites and services — ones you might use every day, like Gmail and Facebook,” says this Mashable article. This thing MUST be serious; it has its own […]
Decree: Set your partition offset and block size – make SQL Server faster
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it 1,024 times: your SQL data and log drives need a 1024 KB starting offset, and a 64 KB block size*. Your SQL data and log drives need a 1024 KB starting offset, and a 64 KB block size. If you read this blog, you’re likely a data professional. […]