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Here’s your weekly roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Technology Stuff. Enjoy….
SQL Server Links
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Antoher British classic, the fondant fancy
That’s Actually a Duplicate Index – An excellent walk-through post from Jason Strate (Blog|Twitter), identifying the different types of duplicate indexes that you need to look out for when conducting performance analysis of your environments.
- You don’t have a Big Data problem – Straight talking from Brent Ozar (Blog|Twitter), taking a sledgehammer to all this “trendy” Big Data talk.
- SQL Server 2012 Diagnostic Information Queries (March 2013) – Glenn Berry (Blog|Twitter) shares an update to his excellent and freely available utility scripts.
- Slipstreamin’ Away – Practising a philosophy I am particularly fond of, Mike Fal (Blog|Twitter) shares some automation wisdom with us.
- switchoffset built-in function can cause incorrect cardinality estimate – Tales from the trenches with the CSS SQL Server Engineers (Blog).
- Execution Plan Analysis: The Mystery Work Table – Each week I am fortunate to become a tiny little bit better at reading, evaluating and most importantly understanding execution plans, and it’s all thanks to the incredible efforts of the talented author Mr Paul White (Blog|Twitter). Do your career a favour and add this super smart chap to your RSS Reader now folks.
- Build your own Virtual Lab – Matt Velic (Blog|Twitter) shares his eBook on how you can get started with your very own SQL2012 lab environment.
- Twitter Talk Theatre, Episode 1: “RAID is good enough!” – Twitter can be a fantastic source of insight and knowledge if you use it right. SQL community knowledge pooling in action, courtesy of your host Jen McCown (Blog|Twitter).
- New job, new computer, new software installs – Batman had his utility belt, as for the rest of us we have to make do with our tool belt. You all know that I love me some tools and I also enjoy learning about what other Data Professionals keep in their box of tricks. Here’s Jamie Thomson(Blog|Twitter) with his own desktop tool setup.
Community Forum Conversations
These are some of the discussions going on right now in the SQLBrit Community Forum
- First major mistake as a so-called DBA – booohooo!
- Are You a DBA or a DB Dev?
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New comer from LA area with lots of questions
Misc. Technology Posts
- ‘Mainframe blowout’ knackered millions of RBS, NatWest accounts – TheRegister
- Programming’s not for you? How about thinking? Be empowered – Scott Hanselman
- Google Street View – a closer look – BBC News Technology
- Case Study on my two favorite technologies – Big Data & Xbox (Halo) – Shashank Pawar
- Evernote says security has been breached by hackers – BBC News Technology
- Virgin Media keeps mum as punters fume at crippled web access – TheRegister
Have you read a blog post this week that you really enjoyed and deserves a mention? Let me know in the comments and on Twitter(@SQLBrit).
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