Monthly Archives: April 2013

Accelerating Your Career

Posted on April 23, 2013 by way0utwest

I ran across an article on ways to accelerate your career and for the most part I think these are good ideas and suggestions. Networking, finding a mentor, and more will help you no matter what business or field you are working. … Continue reading →

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Does TDE really work on MDF files?

Posted on April 22, 2013 by way0utwest

Yes, it does. However, let’s prove it. First let’s create a database, a table, and enter some data: — create a database CREATE DATABASE TDE_Primer ; GO — create and populate a table USE TDE_Primer go CREATE TABLE MyTable ( … Continue reading →

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A Billion Transactions

Posted on April 22, 2013 by way0utwest

How long would it take your systems at work to process a billion transactions? You’d expect some, heavily used and highly visible systems to be involved. The stock market systems process billions of trades a day, but I’m sure most … Continue reading →

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Upgrading to 2012

Posted on April 20, 2013 by way0utwest

It’s been a little over a year since SQL Server 2012 was released in its RTM version. In that time, I’ve been using it on most of my machines for testing and demos. I like working with the new features and … Continue reading →

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