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Here’s your weekly roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Technology Stuff. Enjoy….
From the SQL Server blogs
- 10 ways to reduce database size & improve performance – Dmitri Korotkevitch (Blog)
- Materialized Views in SQL Server – Michael J. Swart (Blog|Twitter)
- Who’s Allowed to Add Indexes to ISV Apps? – Brent Ozar (Blog|Twitter)
- PASS Summit 2014 ~ My GameTime Experience – Chris Yates(Blog|Twitter)
- Growing Log Files Responsibly – Mike Fal (Blog|Twitter)
- Transactional Replication: Isolating Subscriber Tables – Kendra Little (Blog|Twitter)
- Developers, Ready for a New SQL Server Version? – Michael J. Swart (Blog|Twitter)
- Clustered Index Scans Versus Heap Scans – Chris Adkin (Blog|Twitter)
- How many CPUs is my parallel query using in SQL Server? – Kendra Little (Blog|Twitter)
Other Stuff Worth Reading
- Why I’m Not Learning Analytics
- Does Windows defragment your SSD?
- Uber taxi firm valued at $40bn after $1.2bn fundraising
- Apple ‘deleted’ rivals’ music from iPods, court hears
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