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SQL Server Links
- The 5 Database Design Process Failures You Don’t Want To Make – Even great design can fall foul of process failures. Here’s 5 failures you don’t want to make, courtesy of Thomas Larock (Blog|Twitter).
- Analytic functions – they’re not aggregates – Taking a more detailed look at some of the considerations for working with the new analytic functions in 2012, Rob Farley (Blog|Twitter).
- DBA Darwin Awards: T-SQL Edition Webcast – In this webcast Brent Ozar (Blog|Twitter) shares insights into the top 3 T-SQL traumas he sees out in the field.
- How It Works: HealthCheckTimeout Interval Activities – A look at some internals for clustering and AlwaysOn in 2012, brought to you by the CSS SQL Server Engineers (Blog).
- Hash Partitioning, SQL Server, and Scaling Writes – Another high quality and insightful read from Jeremiah Peschka (Blog|Twitter), this week looking at how and when to scale SQL Server writes.
- Converting SQL Trace to Extended Events in SQL Server 2012 – More from “Mr Extended Events” Jonathan Kehayias (Blog|Twitter) who has put a lot of work in to this for your benefit. Go try it out and let the man know what you think.
- Importance of how you run consistency checks – The latest survey results are in, as Paul Randal (Blog|Twitter) discusses why he’ surprised by the numbers three years on.
- An Introduction to VLDBs Video – When is a database considered a Very Larger Database (VLDB) and what should you be doing differently when it comes to administering it? Brent Ozar (Blog|Twitter) with the answers in his second webcast of the week.
- 2012 Party: Dancing on the FileTable – Busting a move for T-SQL Tuesday, Mike Fal (Blog|Twitter) takes a look at this new to SQL 2012 feature.
- Understanding the sql_text Action in Extended Events – Jonathan Kehayias (Blog|Twitter)
- Changes to Microsoft SQL Server Certifications – This week Microsoft announced a variety changes to SQL Server Certifications, in particular there are new tracks and the old tracks for DBAs and DEVs have been merged. Here’s Kendra Little (Blog|Twitter) with what you need to know.
- SQL Server 2012: RML, XEvent Viewer and Distributed Replay – More SQL Server 2012 goodness for you, courtesy of the CSS SQL Server Engineers (Blog).
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Misc Technology Posts
- Life after Firefox: Can Mozilla regain its mojo?
- Death Star dinosaur aliens could rule galaxy
- Facebook buys Instagram photo sharing network for $1bn
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