Blog Series

Query optimizer pains

As requested by Yavor Angelov from MSFT via Twitter im writing down what seem to to be my biggest pains with QO in SqlServer.

1) Whenever you have a a join between large tables QO will look at the indexes that exists on the join keys. If some indexes are missing it seems that the [...]

Automating encryption tasks with PowerShell

Recently I answered a question on how to automate a task that runs a DTS package, encrypts the result with PGP and then transfers the encrypted file to a FTP site. I became interested in this subject since I heard the same request from 2 people in less than a month and realized that this is a standard pattern for a business process. Extract.Encrypt.Transfer [...]

SQL Server 2008 Failover Clustering with High Availability

I’m heading home from the August session of Chicago PASS and SSUG meeting. First off, this was the biggest meeting in Chicago. Over 80 people signed up and for a very good reason. After a very interesting Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administration with Windows PowerShell presentation by The MAK and Yan Pan,  Allan Hirt managed [...]