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(SFTW) SQL Server Links 24/01/14

January 24, 2014 by John Sansom 1 Comment

Good reads from around the Web.Smart Coffee

It’s Something For The Weekend(SFTW) time, I hope you’ve had a great week.

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

From the SQL Server blogs

  • Recruiter Email Fail – Bob Pusateri (Blog|Twitter)
  • Did Microsoft Stop Releasing SQL Server Service Packs? – Brent Ozar (Blog|Twitter)
  • SQL Server Hekaton (XTP) in-memory Tables: Range Indexes and Row Chains – Tony Rogerson (Blog|Twitter)
  • Myths and Misconceptions about Transaction Isolation Levels – Klaus Aschenbrenner (Blog|Twitter)
  • Full Scans/sec Doesn’t Mean What You Think – Kendra Little (Blog|Twitter)
  • One Intel Processor Family to Avoid For SQL Server 2012/2014 – Glenn Berry (Blog|Twitter)
  • Time for a Quick Rant – Grant Fritchey (Blog|Twitter)
  • Generating Concurrent Activity – Michael J. Swart (Blog|Twitter)
  • Schema-only Backups and Restores – Robert L. Davis(Blog|Twitter)
  • Improving the Performance of Backups – Jes Borland (Blog|Twitter)
  • Scaling-out SQL Server disks and data files on Windows Azure Virtual Machines – Microsoft SQLCAT (Blog)

Other Stuff Worth Reading

  • The Problems with Remote DBA Companies Today – Brent Ozar (Blog|Twitter)
  • Easter egg hunt: Seven secrets of the world wide web – BBC News Technology
  • Snowden speaks: NSA spies create ‘databases of ruin’ on innocent folks – TheRegister
  • Microsoft in more hacking misery  – BBC News Technology
  • The internet is ‘a gift from God’ says Pope Francis – TheRegister

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