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Inside SQL Server... the next book
The last volume of Inside SQL Server 2005 (Query Tuning and Optimization) is now in the hands of MS Press. This is the first time I have worked on a Inside book as a group project, and for some...
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Did You Know? SP2 does NOT limit the amount of plan cache you can have
As I am preparing my talk for the UK SQL Server Users Group on November 16, I was going through other presentations on plan cache management. At the PASS Conference in Denver in September there was a...
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Did You Know? I'm Going Down Under Again!
Most of my trips to the Southern Hemisphere have been in my summer, or their winter, which doesn't lend itself to the best weather conditions. Although on my last trip, I was able to take a week...
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Did You Know? My DVD is in Production!
The editing for Lesson 1 is done and the production run of my DVD has started. We're expecting shipping to start in about 2 weeks. In addition, we've extended the pre-order price for another 5 days,...
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Geek City: How SQL Server Detects the Correct Versioned Rows
Here is a question I just received from the feedback page on my web site: I have finished the book <the storage engine> and like it very much. I am now reading <query tuning and...
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Geek City: Reading the Transaction Log
Sorry, I'm not actually going to tell you how to read the log. I'm just going to talk about it... and whether it's a good thing to be able to do or not, or whether it's an absolutely crucial feature...
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Geek City: SQL Server 2008 Internals is Orderable!
Less than a week ago, I told you about making some major progress on my new book, and that it would "soon" be pre-orderable.It turns out it already was orderable, as my helpful readers let me know....
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