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SQL Server Links
- LOB Logical Reads twice the row count – An excellent walk through from Ted Krueger (Blog|Twitter), looking at the some SQL internals regarding LOB data access.
- Scary SQL Surprises: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Replication – Brent Ozar (Blog|Twitter) highlights the dangers of assuming that you have everything under control.
- Survey: transaction log files per database (code to run) – The survey findings shared by Paul Randal (Blog|Twitter) ALWAYS make for interesting and educational reading. You can do your part by contributing to the actual research by submitting your own data. Go do it now.
- Deletes that Split Pages and Forwarded Ghosts – Deletes causing page splits may seem counter intuitive at first look, Paul White (Blog|Twitter) explains in style.
- Open Question and Answer Webcast Recording – Brent Ozar (Blog|Twitter)
- Who’s taking your backups? No, really – who’s taking your backups? – A gentle reminder from Jes Borland (Blog|Twitter) to check the fine print of your database backup practices.
- Sharpshooting Query Plans From The Cache – Here’s a script from Michael J. Swart (Blog|Twitter) to help you immediately treat a query with a poor execution plan using laser like precision.
- Why Datatypes Matter: 3 Ways They Can Hurt Performance – Thomas Larock (Blog|Twitter) on database design.
- Unexpected ALTER DATABASE commands causing availability problems in Windows Azure SQL Database – The CSS SQL Server Engineers (Blog) here looking at areal world troubleshooting case with SQL Azure.
- Myth Of The Inclusion Filter – The importance of ensuring both you and your customers know the difference, Matt Velic (Blog|Twitter) discusses.
- SQL Audit 302 – Deploying the Audit Solution with Powershell – Wrapping up her excellent series on creating and deploying an audit solution, it’s Colleen Morrow (Blog|Twitter). Links to the entire series can be found int this post.
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Misc Technology Posts
- Blizzard cuts off Iranian access to World of Warcraft – BBC News Technology
- Today is Goof Off at Work Day – Coding Horror
- Apple-Samsung patent verdict: Expert opinions – BBC News Technology
- Oracle rushes out patch for critical 0-day Java exploit – TheRegister
- Square Enix’s CoreOnline makes console games ‘free’ online – BBC News Technology
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