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(SFTW) SQL Server Links 21/03/14

March 21, 2014 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

Good reads from around the Web.Smart Coffee

Short and sweet this week.

Here’s your weekly roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Technology Stuff. Enjoy….

From the SQL Server blogs

  • After You’ve Been a DBA, What Do You Do? – Brent Ozar (Blog|Twitter)
  • Performance improvements in SQL Server 2014 – Klaus Aschenbrenner (Blog|Twitter)
  • What is the most worrying cause of log growth? – Paul Randal (Blog|Twitter)
  • Finding Mistakes – Grant Fritchey (Blog|Twitter)
  • Rollback: What happens when you KILL a session? – Jes Borland (Blog|Twitter)
  • A Primer on Locks, Blocks and Deadlocks – Michael J. Swart (Blog|Twitter)
  • Disk Partition Alignment for Win Server 2012, SQL Server 2012, and 2014 – Jimmy May
  • Where is my Availability Group? – John Sterrett (Blog|Twitter)
  • Setting max server memory – Tibor Karaszi (Blog|Twitter)
  • Finding One Problem Query With Extended Events – Jeremiah Peschka (Blog|Twitter)
  • A cause of high-duration ASYNC_IO_COMPLETION waits – Paul Randal (Blog|Twitter)
  • Using whoami to check for instant file initialization – Tibor Karaszi (Blog|Twitter)
  • An Introduction to Asynchronous Processing with Service Broker – Jonathan Kehayias (Blog|Twitter)

Other Stuff Worth Reading

  • The Trap You Set For Yourself – Coding Horror
  • Cloak ‘anti-social’ app helps you avoid your friends – BBC News Technology
  • How to Keep Email from Ruining Your Life – Inc.com

If you have an idea for the weekly links post, general feedback or just want a chat then please get in touch. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend.

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I’m a Microsoft Certified Master(MCM) of SQL Server. I’ve been working with database technology in a variety of flavors for over fifteen years. I absolutely love what I do and genuinely feel privileged to be a part of our tremendous technology community. Got a question about SQL Server or being a DBA? Ask me!

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