Monthly Archives: September 2009

More Evidence Why You Should Avoid Lots Of Conditional Logic In Stored Procedures

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Glenn Berry

Gail Shaw, who is a SQL MVP from South Africa, has an excellent blog post about this subject. The executive summary is that having lots of conditional logic in a stored procedure tends to confuse the SQL query optimizer and … Continue reading →

Posted in SQL Server 2008 | 10 Comments

New Cumulative Updates For SQL Server 2008

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Glenn Berry

Yesterday, Microsoft released SQL Server 2008 SP1 CU4, which is Build 2734, and SQL Server 2008 RTM CU7, which is Build 1818. There are over 40 included fixes in the SP1 CU4 release, across many different areas of the product. … Continue reading →

Posted in SQL Server 2008 | 16 Comments

Intel Westmere-EP Screenshots

Posted on September 19, 2009 by Glenn Berry

CPUID.COM, which hosts the wonderful CPU-Z utility, has a post up that shows where someone has taken a screenshot of what is probably an engineering sample for the upcoming Nehalem-EP (probably the Xeon 56xx series). This is the six-core, 32nm … Continue reading →

Posted in Computer Hardware | 31 Comments

Memories Of PanzerBlitz

Posted on September 11, 2009 by Glenn Berry

Back when I was a small tyke, I vividly remember playing an Avalon Hill board game called PanzerBlitz, which was a game about tactical armored combat on the Eastern Front in World War 2. This game was originally published in … Continue reading →

Posted in Hobbies | 8 Comments

Proper T-SQL Stored Procedure Formatting

Posted on September 4, 2009 by Glenn Berry

Here is a very good blog post from Aaron Bertrand (another SQL MVP)  on how to write and format stored procedures. As the developers I work with can attest, I am pretty picky about minor details when it comes to … Continue reading →

Posted in SQL Server 2008 | 6 Comments

Nice Discounts On Microsoft Certification Exams From Prometric

Posted on September 2, 2009 by Glenn Berry

Prometric is offering 15% or 20%, or 25% off on selected Microsoft certification exams.  The lower level Technology Specialist (TS) exams are getting the 15% or 20% discount, while the I.T. Professional exams are getting the 25% discount. This is … Continue reading →

Posted in Microsoft | 10 Comments