Monthly Archives: January 2009

New Core i7 920 Workstation Goodness

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Glenn Berry

We recently bought a batch of new Dell XPS Studio workstations that have a 2.66GHz Core i7 920 CPU, 6GB of RAM, a 750GB 7200rpm drive, and an ATI Radeon HD 4850 video card.  I took my machine, and put … Continue reading →

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Intel Ready to Release Release 3.5GHz E8700 Core2 Duo CPU

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Glenn Berry

DailyTech has a story up about the imminent release of a new, top of the line dual-core CPU from Intel. The nice thing about this is that this will probably cause a price reduction for the existing lower end CPUs … Continue reading →

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Understanding Logging and Recovery in SQL Server

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Glenn Berry

Paul Randal is a fellow MVP who worked at Microsoft on the SQL Storage Engine Team for eight years. He does a very good job of explaining how logging and recovery works in SQL Server in this TechNet article. This … Continue reading →

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Cumulative Update 3 For SQL Server 2008 Available

Posted on January 19, 2009 by Glenn Berry

Right on schedule, Microsoft has released Cumulative Update 3 (CU3) for SQL Server 2008. They have maintained their schedule of releasing a CU every eight weeks since SQL Server 2008 went RTM back in August 2008. The fixes included in … Continue reading →

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Useful New DMV in SQL Server 2008

Posted on January 19, 2009 by Glenn Berry

There is a new sys.dm_exec_procedure_stats DMV that was added in SQL Server 2008, that lets you get aggregate performance statistics for all cached stored procedures in a particular database. In the sample query below, I do a simple inner join … Continue reading →

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Denver SQL Server Users Group Report

Posted on January 16, 2009 by Glenn Berry

I attended the monthly meeting at the Denver SQL Server Users Group last night, and listed to a presentation by Steve Jones called “The Modern Resume – Building Your Brand”, which was very interesting. Steve is a fellow SQL MVP, … Continue reading →

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Revamped SQL Server 2008 Web Site

Posted on January 16, 2009 by Glenn Berry

Microsoft has refreshed their SQL Server 2008 home page, with quite a bit of useful new content. One of the more interesting links is to Learning Resources. There is also a link to a pretty big list of SQL Server … Continue reading →

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Greg Reinacker On The Future Of Enterprise RSS

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Glenn Berry

There has been a recent flurry of posts about the health and future of Enterprise RSS, mainly by people who are outside the industry looking in. NewsGator’s founder and CTO has posted his perspective here.  From where I sit, we … Continue reading →

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Windows Live Writer 2009 Available

Posted on January 14, 2009 by Glenn Berry

Microsoft has released an update to Windows Live Writer, which removes the beta moniker. Amit Agarwal has a breakdown on some of the new features here. I have been using Live Writer for a couple of years now, and I … Continue reading →

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