Monthly Archives: May 2015

How Virtualized?

Posted on May 8, 2015 by way0utwest

I went to a talk recently where I saw this statistic: “50% of all workloads were virtualized in 2009. That number is 72% today.” That’s a really big number, at least in my mind. That implies the vast majority of … Continue reading →

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PSA: Update Your PASS Profile

Posted on May 7, 2015 by way0utwest

I got my annual two emails from the PASS organization with the notification to update my profile to vote. I’m not sure why I get two emails to two different email addresses when I’ve only logged into one profile account … Continue reading →

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Reframing to Overcome Filtered Index Limitations

Posted on May 7, 2015 by way0utwest

I’m continuing on with the Blogger’s challenge in this post. Turning the Problem Around In the last post, I wrote about limitations in filtered indexes. I proposed that my table had lots of data with NULL or blank spaces in … Continue reading →

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vNext 2016

Posted on May 7, 2015 by way0utwest

We have a name for the next version of SQL Server: SQL Server 2016. I suspect the internal build may be v14, which I guess makes sense if you’re superstitious about the number 13, or you think your customers are. There are plenty … Continue reading →

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