Dec 24 2011
On the Eleventh day of Christmas I Give Some Tips to Thee…11 SQL Never Not Dos! Ten Quick Hit Thumbscripts A Nine Hour Work Day I FORGOT WHAT EIGHT WAS FOR… Seven Reports to Start My Day Six Gb of RAM Five Volumes Minimum… Four Words to Live By… Three Training Events… Two Twitter Handles… [...]
Dec 23 2011
On the Tenth day of Christmas I Give a Gift to Thee…Ten Quick Hit Thumbscripts A Nine Hour Work Day I FORGOT WHAT EIGHT WAS FOR… Seven Reports to Start My Day Six Gb of RAM Five Volumes Minimum… Four Words to Live By… Three Training Events… Two Twitter Handles… and Mirrored Disks with Parity [...]
Dec 21 2011
On the Eighth day of Christmas my… I FORGOT WHAT EIGHT WAS FOR… Seven Reports to Start My Day Six Gb of RAM Five Volumes Minimum… Four Words to Live By… Three Training Events… Two Twitter Handles… and Mirrored Disks with Parity Ah, I love the Violent Femmes… Day 8. The day to put down [...]
Dec 21 2011
On the Seventh day of Christmas my Inbox Gave to Me… Seven Reports to Start My Day Six Gb of RAM Five Volumes Minimum… Four Words to Live By… Three Training Events… Two Twitter Handles… and Mirrored Disks with Parity I geek out on metadata We each have our little niche area of our jobs [...]
Dec 19 2011
On the Sixth day of Christmas my Server Admin gave to me… Six Gb of RAM Five Volumes Minimum… Four Words to Live By… Three Training Events… Two Twitter Handles… and Mirrored Disks with Parity RAM is Just Giving it Away on the Corner of Performance Boulevard and Buffer Lane No, RAM is not a [...]
Dec 16 2011
On the fourth day of Christmas I gave a gift to you… Four Words to Live By Three Training Events… Two Twitter Handles… and Mirrored Disks with Parity Stop As in “Know when to Stop.” This bit of advice applies to many things. Knowing when to call it a day, turn of the lights, [...]
Dec 14 2011
On the second day of Christmas I gave a gift to me… Two Twitter Handles and Mirrored Disks with Parity. Two Twitter Handles… why? A Base Twitter Primer Twitter, in and of itself is a great tool for communicating with one, or many “followers” in 140 characters. At the core it really is nothing more [...]
Dec 13 2011
On the first day of Christmas my SAN Admin gave to me striped disks with parity… Yes, this is known as RAID 5 and is ideal and preferred for user database data files in Microsoft SQL Server. Why? Satisfactory performance – disks are striped Good redundancy – parity is distributed Lowest-cost RAID option for performance [...]
