Good reads from around the Web.
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Here’s your weekly roundup of SQL Server Links, Blog Posts, News and Technology Stuff. Enjoy….
From the SQL Server blogs
- Shrinking tempdb no longer prohibited – Paul Randal (Blog|Twitter)
- A ever-increasing Clustered Key value doesn’t scale! – Klaus Aschenbrenner (Blog|Twitter)
- Size Matters: Table Rows And Database Data Pages – Thomas Larock (Blog|Twitter)
- Doug Broke It: Minimal Logging [Video] – Doug Lane(Blog|Twitter)
- Add an Instance to SQL Server Azure Virtual Machine – Grant Fritchey (Blog|Twitter)
- New High Availability Planning Worksheet – Brent Ozar (Blog|Twitter)
- IO_COMPLETION and WRITE_COMPLETION wait types – Paul Randal (Blog|Twitter)
- The Hekaton Saga Continues – Kalen Delaney (Blog|Twitter)
- How to Configure Anti-Virus for SQL Servers – Kendra Little (Blog|Twitter)
- Columnstore Indexes: Exploring Delta Store and Delete Bitmap – Dmitri Korotkevitch (Blog)
- Behavior of a 1 Trillion Row Index Build – CSS SQL Server Engineers (Blog)
- Trumpet Sounds; Call To Post – Chris Yates(Blog|Twitter)
Other Stuff Worth Reading
- Three Things – Coding Horror
- FREE Pluralsight video: “Get Involved” in community! – Scott Hanselman
- I’m Going To Help You Become A Better Writer – Michael J. Swart (Blog|Twitter)
If you have a suggestion for content to include in the weekly links post, general feedback or just fancy a chat then please get in touch. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend.
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