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Monthly Archives: March 2013
The Command Shell
Recently I heard a few people arguing over the use of xp_cmdshell in a particular situation. One person was adamant that there was a security risk in using this feature. Many of you probably feel the same way, and even the SQL … Continue reading
The Great Laptop Search of 2013
It’s time for a new laptop. I don’t think it’s time, as I love the Macbook Air I bought a couple years ago. Rather some requirements for work, mainly Hyper-V, have come up and I can’t meet them with the … Continue reading
The DBA Team #1–Code and Slides
Our first DBA Team event, in Richmond, VA just before SQL Saturday #187 went well. Overall I think our experiment was a success and we’re already talking about where and when we might do this again. In the meantime, we … Continue reading
Posted in Blog
Tagged backup, corruption, indexing, monitoring, Redgate, speaking, syndicated
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What Do You Want to Know About I/O?
There’s lots I want to know. What affect does an SSD have if I use it for a log file? One of my filegroups with indexes? What about tempdb? How do you dig in and prove latency to the storage … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial
Tagged hardware, Performance, speaking, SQL Intersection
