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Tuesday, September 06, 2005 6:11 PM

SQL 2005: Making sense of the new Optimistic Concurrency Controls and the readers that block writers

For a long time now Oracle enthusiasts have bashed SQL Server for not having Optimistic Concurrency Controls.  They would demonstrate a SQL Server reader blocking a writer and possibly a writer blocking a reader.  Thus, having appeared to demonstrate
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Wednesday, June 22, 2005 9:31 PM

Follow up on Database snapshot performance question from SQL Server™ 2005 High Availability TechNet evening 21/6/05

Follow up on Database snapshot performance question from SQL Server™ 2005 High Availability TechNet evening 21/6/05   Question; how does a snapshot database perform compared to the original database when it comes to querying – can it make use of
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Wednesday, June 22, 2005 2:29 PM

Follow up on Witnesses question from SQL Server™ 2005 High Availability TechNet evening 21/6/05

Database Mirroring: How many witness can you have in quorum? - One How many witnesses can you have on one box? - Many
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Tuesday, June 07, 2005 12:15 PM

Two SQL 2005 TechNet Evenings I'll be delivering in Reading, UK

For those of you in the area, I'll be presenting these two TechNet evenings in Reading UK - it would be good to see you there! 14 th June Session Abstract: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is the next version of the successful SQL Server product family. This
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Monday, May 23, 2005 5:23 PM

Processing XML Showplans Using SQLCLR in SQL Server 2005 - Make Use of the New XML Showplans

SQL 2005 now provides Showplan (Query plan) output in XML - why? To make it easier for a dba/developer to write TSQL, or other code, that can determine the cost of a query and thus dynamically determine if the query should be prevented
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Monday, April 18, 2005 4:49 PM

TechNet Roadshow Example code for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Table partitioning

For those who want to give this a try, this is the code I've been using on the 2K5 H1 roadshow for my SQL 2k5 Table Partitioning demo. USE AdventureWorksGO ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks ADD FILEGROUP FG1ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks ADD FILEGROUP FG2GO
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Wednesday, March 30, 2005 3:28 PM

The Final Word in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Backup, Restore and recovery

I am pleased to be able to point you to the last word in SQL Server 2000 Backup and Restore methods. At last all the answers in one place! SQL Server 2000 Backup and Restore Published: March 1, 2005 Author: Pankaj Agarwal Published: February, 2005
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Tuesday, February 08, 2005 3:50 PM

Microsoft SQL Server Performance Top Tip: Degrees of Parallelism and a Degree of Uncertainty

Max degree of parallelism is an advanced configuration option in SQL Server about which many question have been asked and much written.  In this blog entry I hope to offer some insight and certainty as to what this option does and how it should be
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Tuesday, February 01, 2005 4:28 PM

I'm trying to find some detail on Patch management / deployment on a 4 SQL Server node cluster?

Stephen Daborn asked this question on my High Availability blog entry and I didn't get back before the post closed - sorry Stephen - been doing a lot of snow boarding recently. Anyway its a good question and it deserves an answer. The best thing to do
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Monday, January 10, 2005 1:50 PM

Oracle RAC, Grid, IBM, and Microsoft: A Corporate Altercation or Religious Divergence

People often ask me, “When Microsoft is going to get into the type of clustering as defined by Oracle’s RAC (Real Application Clusters)?”  Generally, I find these are people who believe the technical concepts behind RAC are the way of the future,
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Friday, January 07, 2005 11:23 AM

SQL Server Health and History Tool (SQLH2)

This tool has been available for a couple of months but I only found out about it yesterday; I was reading some stuff about SQL Server 2005 and found a reference to say this tool will be supported in SQL 2k5.  Realising such downloads have sometimes
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Monday, December 20, 2004 1:15 PM

TechNet Webcast: A Technical Overview of SQL 2005 High Availability Features (Part 2 of 2) - Level: 200

Friday, January 14, 2005 - 9:30 - 10:30 AM Pacific Time Matthew Hester, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation There are a number of barriers to availability, and only some of these are addressable by DBMS technology. This session looks at some of the
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Monday, December 20, 2004 1:14 PM

TechNet Webcast: A Technical Overview of SQL 2005 High Availability Features (Part 1 of 2) - Level: 200

Friday, January 07, 2005 - 9:30 - 10:30 AM Pacific Time Bryan Von Axelson, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation There are a number of barriers to availability, and only some of these are addressable by DBMS technology. This first part of a two-part
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Friday, December 17, 2004 8:26 PM

SQL Server Disaster Recovery (DR) and SANs, Remote Mirrors and Geo-Clusters

After some positive comments arising from my High Availability post I’ve decided to Blog on DR earlier than I had intended.  I hadn’t intended to blog on DR for a while because it’s a difficult subject and I was hoping it might get easier if I left
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Wednesday, December 15, 2004 8:12 AM

SQL Server High Availability – I have to talk about this so much I feel like a scratched record.

Rather than write endless amounts here I’m just going to describe some useful pointers that you can reference.  The first reference is to failover clusters, I mention this one first as it dives head on into that word ‘Cluster’.  This word is
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