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Weekly links for 11-21-2011

Luke — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:25:16 +0000

SQL Server 2012 Release Candidate is now Available from SQL Server Team blog

The Data Scientist from BuckWoody

7 Scaling Strategies Facebook Used to Grow to 500 Million Users HighScalabilty

10 Sloppy Social Media Mistakes to Fix NOW from Hubspot Blog

What is Hadoop? And Why is it Good for Big Data? from The Data [...]

SQLskills Community Mentoring and me

Luke — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:41:46 +0000

As some of you might be aware Paul Randal (blog | twitter) has just announced the launch of a new SQL Skills Community Mentoring program for a few individuals that took part in the SQL Skills Immersion Events. I’m deeply honored to be one of the select few that get access to invaluable advice from [...]

We are family!

Luke — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:44:26 +0000

This is the second time I’m writing a post in the “Meme Monday” series and this time it originates from Tom LaRock (blog | twitter). The topic is : What #SQLfamily means to me.

This weekend I participated in a #SQLfamily reunion in Washington, DC. Some might argue that this is called SQL Saturday #96 [...]

How to: Poor man’s cursor template for batch processing

Luke — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:04:15 +0000

John Sterrett blog|twitter asked a question about “How do I loop by rowcount in SSIS? I have a table with 5 million IDs and would like to loop to process 10K at a time. #sqlhelp”

This cannot be done natively in SSIS but you could create a stored procedure that uses the concept known as [...]

Presenting 2 sessions at SQL Saturday #96 in Washington, DC

Luke — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:12:54 +0000

I am deeply honored that I was chosen to present 2 sessions at SQL Saturday #96 in Washington, DC this Saturday, November 5, 2011!

Location is: Microsoft MTC 5404 Wisconsin Ave, Suite 700 Chevy Chase, MD 20815

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Subway: Friendship Heights Metro Station

SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those [...]

How to improve your Comcast response time?

Luke — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 01:07:39 +0000

Recently I switched my ISP from AT&T DSL (I know … what was I thinking) back to Comcast. The process went thru very quick and in 30 minutes my old cable modem was hooked up and provisioned and was seeing 23 Mb/s speeds. with 11ms response time. But… wait. As soon as I started using [...]

Speaking on SQL Server Algebrizer at SQL Saturday #82 Indianapolis

Luke — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 05:06:59 +0000

I was selected to present a session Back to basics – How does the Algebrizer work has been selected for SQL Saturday #82 in Indianapolis, IN on Saturday, June 25, 2011!

Location is: University of Indianapolis-1400 E Hanna Ave Indianapolis, IN 46227 View Larger Map

SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those [...]

What’s the big difference between Oracle and SQL Server indexes (Part I)

Luke — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:35:30 +0000

Last week Erin Stellato (blog| twitter) has asked a very interesting question on Twitter that triggered this post:

So how is it you can have good perf in Oracle, w/o IOTs, but in SQL Server, everyone says need CIs for good perf?

There are two aspects to that question

What is the difference between index [...]

Meme Monday

Luke — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:26:40 +0000

Welcome to the first Meme Monday! This idea was brought to life by Thomas Larock (Blog|Twitter).

Here’s mine

Real DBAs never use DBCC SHRINKDATABASE.Because they know better!

Optimists, Pessimists and Technology People

Luke — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:35:00 +0000

I got this in the email a while ago and looking at it again, I had to post it because it is too funny.

Pessimist: “The glass is half empty.”

Optimist: “The glass is half full.”

Database Administrator: “The glass is sized correctly for peak loads.”

Virtualization Admin: “This person should be sharing [...]