Month: October 2013
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Few thoughts on Windows Power Options
I ran into and old issue recently I hadn’t seen in a while. A database server was experiencing some intermittent performance issues that didn’t make much sense. It didn’t take me long to figure out what was going on though, after firing up the Resource Monitor.
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The fifth and final day in Charlotte
And so it is that PASS Summit 2013 has come to an end. And I have to say that for a first timer like me, it was truly an eye-opener to what SQL Server Community is all about. The quality of the sessions and the deep knowledge of SQL Server…
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Days three and four in Charlotte
Last two days have been really hectic here at Charlotte. Most of the day have been spend there at the conference center and last night we went out with couple of other Finns to participate in a traditional Finnish Eve. On thursday there was the Community Appreciation Party held at…
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Second day in Charlotte
The second day in Charlotte at the PASS Summit 2013 has come to an end. I spend the whole day in a Failover Clustering pre-conference session held by Allan Hirt and it was both educating and exciting. I was pleased to realize that many of the things I have spoken…
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First day in Charlotte
First day in Charlotte started earlier than we had planned due the time difference. We also had some misfortune with us, as two from our group we delayed due mechanical failure on the plane that was supposed to bring them to Helsinki. We had no pre-con sessions for today so…
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Attending PASS Summit 2013
I’ll hit the road and air (can you actually hit the air?) in a couple of days to start my journey towards Charlotte, North Carolina to attend the PASS Summit 2013. This will be my first time in the PASS main event of the year and I am quite excited…
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Using Dynamic Management Views and Fuctions.
In my previous post we took a quick look into one of the SQL Server features that I personally consider to be a great boon to any DBA, the Dynamic Management Views and Functions. Im going to show you through some basic examples on how you can use these views…
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TCP Chimney Offload and RSS issues with SQL Server.
I was migrating some old databases (I’ll write some more about this later) couple nights back to new database server and while that went mostly alright, things were not looking so good in the morning. I was driving on a highway, taking my daughter to daycare when the phone rang.…