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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 that I got the company…

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    Mika Sutinen

  • 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 to get meaningful information out…

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    Mika Sutinen

  • 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. I did recognize the number…

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    Mika Sutinen

  • Getting familiar with the SQL Servers DMV’s

    I’ve been working with SQL Server ever since 1999, back then it was the 6.5 version which was soon replaced by the SQL Server 2000 (we skipped the 7.0 completely). Back in those days getting information out of SQL Server was much, much more difficult and you had way less tools for it. Then came…

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    Mika Sutinen

  • Starting a blog.

    As I moved from the famous “accidental” DBA role into being an actual DBA, it was quite a learning experience from the start and it is continuing to be so even this day. When I started my career, back in 1998, there were very few resouces other than actual books, about SQL Servers. Fortunately these…

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    Mika Sutinen

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