Setting CPU affinity in SQL Server is not a task you do every day. Rarely are there use cases when you need to do that. I had a recent requirement to do it. We plan to replace a physical server with half of its current CPU. Primarily due to faster CPU and workload moved off of […]
I thank Garry Bargsley (Blog|Twitter) for hosting T-SQL Tuesday #157. The topic for this month is End of Year Activity. I also want to acknowledge Adam Machanic’s vision behind this project. I learned a lot from some T-SQL Tuesdays and participated in a few. Thank you, Steve Jones (Blog|Twitter), for coordinating this program. If you are interested […]
Pass Data Community Summit 2022 day two keynote titled “Doing More with Less: The Challenges Ahead for Every Data Professional” will be delivered by Redgate. There are three names (Jakub Lamik, Steve Jones, and Kathi Kellenberger) but five pictures. I am unsure if David Bick and Arne Eskandari will be on the stage. I am […]
New Starts of Data organizers asked us to tell our story about how we started. I want to thank William Durkin (T) and Ben Weissman (B|T) for this great initiative that has produced over 100 new speakers. Wednesday, October 14, 2015, I did my first lightning talk, ‘Manging SQL Agent Job History,’ at New England […]
Introducing SQL Server 2022 Get SQL Server 2022 What’s new in SQL Server 2022 (16.x) Preview Bob Ward’s presentation deck about SQL Server 2022 SQL Server 2022 demo Introducing the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform by Rohan Kumar Announcing SQL Server 2022 public preview: Azure-enabled with continued performance and security innovation by Peter Calin SQL Server […]