Monthly Archives: May 2009

Microsoft’s Sanjay Mishra has written and published an excellent whitepaper on MSDN and SQLCAT.COM called “Data Compression: Strategy, Capacity Planning and Best Practices”, which gets into lots of valuable detail about how and when to use the two different types … Continue reading →

This is a slide from an Intel presentation talking about the upcoming Nehalem-EX, which will be the four socket server version of the desktop Core i7 CPU. Unlike the Xeon 55xx series, this CPU will have eight cores plus hyper-threading, … Continue reading →

Here are several more SQL Server 2008 specific queries that can help determine if you are using certain Enterprise Edition only features, which tables and indexes are using data compression, whether you are using any deprecated features, and look at … Continue reading →

Microsoft’s Bob Ward has a post up that spills the beans on what trace flag you can enable to allow “Lock Pages In Memory” support with SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition SP1 CU2 (Build 2714) now, and on on SQL … Continue reading →

Last week, Microsoft released several important updates for SQL Server 2008. First, is the May 2009 update for SQL Server 2008 Books Online. Microsoft also released Cumulative Update 2 for SQL Server 2008 SP1, and Cumulative Update 5 for SQL … Continue reading →

This is the annotated set of diagnostic queries that I used for my demonstration at the Denver SQL Server User’s Group on May 21. Many of these are SQL Server 2008 specific, and you need VIEW SERVER STATE permission to … Continue reading →

Microsoft has a couple of handy KB articles that list the various public builds of SQL Server 2008 that were released after RTM and after SP1 respectively, which are listed below: The SQL Server 2008 builds that were released after … Continue reading →

I will be one of the presenters at the Denver SQL Server User’s Group meeting tonight at the Microsoft office in the Denver Tech Center. I will be the opening act at 6:30PM, while fellow SQL MVP Paul Nielsen will … Continue reading →

Perhaps lost in all of the hoopla and anticipation over Windows 7 is the fact that Microsoft has released the RC build of Windows Server 2008 R2 (which is the server version of Windows 7). This morning, I installed the … Continue reading →