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My Name is Andy and I Have an Associates of Applied Science Degree

- by andyleonard

Introduction This post is the forty-first part of a ramble-rant about the software business. The current posts in this series can be found on the series landing page . This post is about the education requirements for job listings. Bachelor’s Degree Required I’m not qualified for any job that requires a bachelor’s degree because I don’t have one. I regularly receive email from recruiters asking if I’m available and interested in a position they have open, or a position they’ve been asked to fill...(read more)

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SyncToBlog #10 Lots of Azure and Cloud Links including MIX10 videos

- by Eric Nelson

Just getting a few interesting cloud links “down on paper”. I last did one of these on Azure in Feb 20010. Cloud Links: Article on Debugging in the Cloud http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/azurescale A sample app that demonstrates monitoring and automatically scaling an Azure application in response to dropping performance etc. Basically a console app that checks perf stats and then uses the Service Management API to spin up new instances when needed. Azure In Action book is imminent :) Running Memcached in Windows Azure from the MS UK team Using Microsoft Codename Dallas as a data source for Drupal also from the MS UK team I often mention them – but this post is the biz! Metodi on fault and upgrade domains Detailed blog post on comparing Azure AppFabric Service Bus REST support to the free Faye Ruby+JavaScript gem that implements the JSON publish/subscribe protocol Bayeux. AppFabric LABS allow you to test out and play with experimental AppFabric technologies. Details of the upcoming VM support in Windows Azure Nice series of posts from J D Meier in the Patterns and Practice team How To Use ASP.NET Forms Auth with Azure Tables How To Use ASP.NET Forms Auth with Roles in Azure Tables How To Use ASP.NET Forms Auth with SQL Server on Windows Azure And sessions from MIX10 held March 15th to 17th: Lap around the Windows Azure Platform – Steve Marx Building and Deploying Windows Azure Based Applications with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 – Jim Nakashima Building PHP Applications using the Windows Azure Platform – Craig Kitterman, Sumit Chawla Using Ruby on Rails to Build Windows Azure Applications – Sriram Krishnan Microsoft Project Code Name “Dallas": Data for your apps – Moe Khosravy Using Storage in the Windows Azure Platform – Chris Auld Building Web Applications with Windows Azure Storage – Brad Calder Building Web Application with Microsoft SQL Azure – David Robinson Connecting Your Applications in the Cloud with Windows Azure AppFabric – Clemens Vasters Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Azure: A Match Made for the Web – Matt Kerner Something for everyone :)

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CodePlex Daily Summary for Saturday, May 08, 2010

CodePlex Daily Summary for Saturday, May 08, 2010New ProjectsBizSpark Camp Sample Code: This sample project demonstrates best practices when developing Windows Phone 7 appliactions with Azure. **This code is meant only as a sample f...CLB Article Module: The CLB Article Module is a simple DotNetNuke Module for Article writers. This module is designed to provide a simple location for article/screenc...cvplus: a computer vision libraryDemina: Demina is a simple keyframe based 2d skeletal animation system. It's developed in C# using XNA.Expo Live: Expo LiveFeedMonster: FeedMonster is a Cross platform Really Simple Syndication reader made to allow you to easily follow updates to your favorite sites. Its made using ...GamePad to KeyBoard: GamePad to KeyBoard (GP2KB) is a small app that lets you define an associated keyboard key for each button in your XBox 360 controller. This way, y...huanhuan's project: moajfiodsafasLazyNet: Lazynet Allows users to save the proxy settings and IP addresses of wireless networks. This makes it easier for users that move a lot between diffe...mfcfetionapi: mfcfetionapiMocking BizTalk: Mocking BizTalk is a set of tools aimed at bringing Mock Object concepts in BizTalk solution testing. Actually it consists in a set of MockPipelin...nkSWFControl: nkSWFControl is a ASP.NET control that provides numberous ways for publishing SWF movies in your pages. The project goal is to become defacto ...Property Pack for EPiServer CMS: With EPiServer CMS 6 it's possible to create a wide variety of custom property types that have customized settings in each usage. This Property Pac...SPRoleAssignment: SPRoleAssignment makes it easier for programmers to assign custom item level permissions. You can now easily grant or remove permissions to certain...Thats-Me Dot Net API: Thats-Me Dot Net API is a library which implements the Thats-Me.ch API for the Dot Net Framework.The Information Literacy Education Learning Environment (ILE): Written in C# utilizing the .net framework the Information Literacy Education (ILE) learning environment is designed to deliver information litera...tinytian: Tools, shared.Unidecode Sharp: UnidecodeSharp is a C# port of Python and Perl Unidecode module. Intended to transliterate an Unicode object into an ASCII string, no matter what l...Wave 4: Wave 4 is a platform for professional bloggers, integrated with many social networking services.New ReleasesµManager for MaNGOS: 0.8.6: Improvements: Supports up to MaNGOS revision 9692 (may support higher revisions, this is dependent on any changes made to the database structure b...BFBC2 PRoCon: PRoCon 0.3.5.0: Release Notes CommingBizSpark Camp Sample Code: Initial Check-in: There are two downloads available for this project. There is a windows phone 7 application that calls webservices hosted in Azure. And there is a...Bojinx: Bojinx Core V4.5.11: Minor release that fixes several minor bugs and adds more error prevention logic. Fixed: You will no longer get a null pointer error when loading ...CuttingEdge.Logging: CuttingEdge.Logging v1.2.2: CuttingEdge.Logging is a library that helps the programmer output log statements to a variety of output targets in .NET applications. The design is...DotNetNuke® Events: 05.01.00 Beta 1: Please take note: this is a Beta releaseThis is a not a formal Release of DNN Events 05.01.00. This is a beta version, which is not extensively te...dylan.NET: dylan.NET v. 9.8: This is the latest version of dylan.NET features the new locimport statement, improved error handling and other new stuff and bug fixes.Free Silverlight & WPF Chart Control - Visifire: Visifire SL and WPF Charts v3.0.9 beta 2 Released: Hi, This release contains the following enhancements: * New Property named ClosestPlotDistance has been implemented in Axis. It defines the d...Free Silverlight & WPF Chart Control - Visifire: Visifire SL and WPF Charts v3.5.2 beta 2 Released: Hi, This release contains the following enhancements: * New Property named ClosestPlotDistance has been implemented in Axis. It defines the d...GamePad to KeyBoard: GP2KB v0.1: First public version of GamePad to KeyBoard.Global: Version 0.1: This is the first beta stable release of this assembly. Check out the Test console app to see how some of the stuff works. EnjoyHtml Agility Pack: 1.4.0 Stable: 1.4.0 Adds some serious new features to Html Agility Pack to make it work nicer in a LINQ driven .NET World. The HtmlNodeCollection and HtmlAttribu...LazyNet: Beta Release: This is the Beta Version, All functionality has been implemented but needs further testing for bugs.Mercury Particle Engine: Mercury Particle Engine 3.1.0.0: Long overdue release of the latest version of Mercury Particle Engine, this release is changeset #66009NazTek.Extension.Clr4: NazTek.Extension.Clr4 Binary Cab: Includes bin, config, and chm filesnetDumbster: netDumbster 1.0: netDumbster release 1.0Opalis Community Releases: Workflow Examples (May 7, 2010): The Opalis team is providing some sample Workflows (policies) for customers and partners to help you get started in creating your own workflows in ...patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance: SPG2010 Drop10: SharePoint Guidance Drop Notes Microsoft patterns and practices ****************************************** ***************************************...Shake - C# Make: Shake v0.1.9: First public release including samples. Basic tasks: - MSBuild task (msbuild command line with parameters) - SVN command line client with checkout...SPRoleAssignment: Role Assigment Project [Eng]: SPRoleAssignment makes it easier for programmers to assign custom item level permissions. You can now easily grant or remove permissions to certain...SQL Server Metadata Toolkit 2008: Alpha 7 SQL Server Metadata Toolkit: The changes in this are to the Parser, and a change to handle WITH CTE's within the Analyzers. The Parser now handles CAST better, EXEC, EXECUTE, ...StackOverflow Desktop Client in C# and WPF: StackOverflow Client 0.5: Made the popup thinner, removed the extra icon and title. The questions on the popup automatically change every 5 seconds.TimeSpanExt: TimeSpanExt 1.0: This had been stuck in beta for a long time, so I'm glad to finally make the full release.Transcriber: Transcriber V0.2.0: First alpha release. See Issue Tracker for known bugs and incomplete features.Unidecode Sharp: UnidecodeSharp 0.04: First release. Tested and stable. Versions duplicates Perl and Python ones.Visual Studio 2010 AutoScroller Extension: AutoScroller v0.3: A Visual studio 2010 auto-scroller extension. Simply hold down your middle mouse button and drag the mouse in the direction you wish to scroll, fu...Visual Studio 2010 Test Case Import Utilities: V 1.0 (RC2): Work Item Migrator With the prior releases of Test Case Migrator ( Beta and RC1), it was possible to: migrate test cases (along with test steps) ...Word Add-in For Ontology Recognition: Technology Preview, Beta 2 - May 2010: This is a technology preview release of the Word Add-in for Ontology Recognition for Word. These are some of the updates included in this version:...Most Popular ProjectsWBFS ManagerRawrAJAX Control ToolkitMicrosoft SQL Server Product Samples: DatabaseSilverlight Toolkitpatterns & practices – Enterprise LibraryWindows Presentation Foundation (WPF)Microsoft SQL Server Community & SamplesASP.NETPHPExcelMost Active Projectspatterns & practices – Enterprise LibraryAJAX Control FrameworkRawrThe Information Literacy Education Learning Environment (ILE)Caliburn: An Application Framework for WPF and SilverlightBlogEngine.NETpatterns & practices - UnityjQuery Library for SharePoint Web ServicesNB_Store - Free DotNetNuke Ecommerce Catalog ModuleTweetSharp

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Importing data from text file to specific columns using BULK INSERT

- by Dinesh Asanka

Bulk insert is much faster than using other techniques such as SSIS. However, when you are using bulk insert you can’t insert to specific columns. If, for example, there are five columns in a table you should have five values for each record in the text file you are importing from. This is an issue when you are expecting default values to be inserted into tables. Let us say you have table as below: In this table, you are expecting ID, Status and CreatedDate to be updated automatically, so your text file may only have FirstName LastName values as below: Dinesh,Asanka Saman,Liyanage Ruwan,Silva Susantha,Bathige Jude,Peires Sanjeewa,Jayawickrama If you use bulk insert to this table like follows, You will be returned an error: Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the specified codepage) for row 1, column 1 (ID). To avoid this you will need to create a view with the columns you are expecting to fill and use bulk insert against it. If you check the table now, you will see table with values in the text file and the default values.

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I Start!

- by andyleonard

I originally titled this post "I Quit!" but decided that doesn't set the proper tone and definitely does not match my feelings about the upcoming transitions in my life. "I Start!" is much more appropriate! Introduction I've tendered my resignation from the position of Manager, ETL Team, Data Management Group, Molina Medicaid Solutions effective Friday 14 Jan 2011. "There I Was..." In 2008 my consultant billable-days - the metric I use to determine how business is going - dropped from 20 / month...(read more)

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Storage Configuration

- by jchang

Storage performance is not inherently complicated subject. The concepts are relatively simple. In fact, scaling storage performance is far easier compared with the difficulties encounters in scaling processor performance in NUMA systems. Storage performance is achieved by properly distributing IO over: 1) multiple independent PCI-E ports (system memory and IO bandwith is key) 2) multiple RAID controllers or host bus adapters (HBAs) 3) multiple storage IO channels (SAS or FC, complete path) most importantly,...(read more)

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Free Windows Azure event next Monday in London (29th March)

- by Eric Nelson

I just heard that we still have spaces for this event happening next week (29th March 2010). Whilst the event is designed for start-ups, I’m sure nobody would notice if you snuck in :-) Just keep it to yourself ;-) Register using invitation code: 79F2AB. Hope to see you there. The agenda is looking pretty swish: 09:00 – 09:30 Registration 09:30 - 10:15 Keynote ‘I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now....’– John Taysom, Active Seed Investor 10:15 - 10:45 The Microsoft Vision for Cloud Computing – Steve Clayton, Director Software + Services, EMEA 10:45 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 12:30 “Windows Azure in Real World” – hear from startups that have built their business around the Azure platform, moderated by Alistair Beagley, Azure UK Developer and Platform Lead 12:30 - 13:15 Lunch and networking 13:15 - 14:15 Breakout Tracks, moderated by our Azure Experts 1. Windows Azure Technical Overview - David Gristwood, Application Architect, Microsoft 2. SQL Azure Technical Overview – Eric Nelson, Application Architect, Microsoft 3. Commercial insight into Windows Azure and what this means for BizSpark Start-ups - Simon Karn, Commercial Lead, UK Windows Azure Incubation Team, Microsoft 14:15 - 14:30 Session change over 14:30 - 15:30 Breakout Tracks, moderated by our Azure Experts 1. SQL Azure Technical Overview (repeat) - Eric Nelson, Application Architect, Microsoft 2. Deep dive into Windows Azure – Neil Kidd, Architect, Microsoft Technology Centre 3. Lessons Learnt - Windows Azure in the Real World interactive session – Two customers hosted by Matt Deacon, Enterprise Architect, Microsoft 15:30 - 16:00 Break & Session change over 16:00 - 17:00 Breakout Tracks, moderated by our Azure Experts 1. PHP / Ruby on Azure Simon Davies, Architect, UK Windows Azure Incubation Team, Microsoft 2. Commercial insight into Windows Azure and what this means for BizSpark Start-ups (repeat) - Simon Karn, Commercial Lead, UK Windows Azure Incubation Team, Microsoft 3. Lessons Learnt - Windows Azure in the Real World interactive session #2 Two customers hosted by Matt Deacon, Enterprise Architect, Microsoft 17:00 - 18:00 Pitches and Judging 18:15 Wrap-up and close 18:15 - 20:00 Drinks & Networking

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OWB 11gR2 - Windows and Linux 64-bit clients available

- by David Allan

In addition to the integrated release of OWB in the 11.2.0.3 Oracle database distribution, the following 64-bit standalone clients are now available for download from Oracle Support. OWB 11.2.0.3 Standalone client for Windows 64-bit - 13365470 OWB 11.2.0.3 Standalone client for Linux X86 64-bit - 13366327 This is in addition to the previously released 32-bit client on Windows. OWB 11.2.0.3 Standalone client for Windows 32-bit - 13365457 The support document Major OWB 11.2.0.3 New Features Summary has details for OWB 11.2.0.3 which include the following. Exadata v2 and oracle Database 11gR2 support capabilities; Support for Oracle Database 11gR2 and Exadata compression types Even more partitioning: Range-Range, Composite Hash/List, System, Reference Transparent Data Encryption support Data Guard support/certification Compiled PL/SQL code generation Capabilities to support data warehouse ETL best practices; Read and write Oracle Data Pump files with external tables External table preprocessor Partition specific DML Bulk data movement code templates: Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server to Oracle Integration with Fusion Middleware capabilities; Support OWB's Control Center Agent on WLS Lots of interesting capabilities in 11.2.0.3 and the availability of the 64-bit client I'm sure is welcome news for many!

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Some date math fun

- by drsql

Note: This concept presented is pretty simple and I am not claiming that I am the first to do this… so if you were the one who came up with this, let me know and I will give you linkage Today I was needing to get the data for the current month for a query, and it hit me that I really didn’t have a good way to do this. There were two common methods that people use: WHERE YEAR(MonthColumn) = YEAR(Getdate()) AND MONTH(MonthColumn) = MONTH(Getdate()) But this particular method is pretty horrible...(read more)

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Survey: How's Your Economy?

- by andyleonard

Another quick survey question, slightly off-topic: How's your economy? Have things picked up for you recently? Slowed down? Remained static? :{> Andy Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...(read more)

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Some date math fun

- by drsql

Note: This concept presented is pretty simple and I am not claiming that I am the first to do this… so if you were the one who came up with this, let me know and I will give you linkage Today I was needing to get the data for the current month for a query, and it hit me that I really didn’t have a good way to do this. There were two common methods that people use: WHERE YEAR(MonthColumn) = YEAR(Getdate()) AND MONTH(MonthColumn) = MONTH(Getdate()) But this particular method is pretty horrible...(read more)

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Congratulations 2010 Microsoft MVP, woo hoo 5th time now

- by ssqa.net

Well, its April 01st again and a big day for me 2 important events to note (daughter's birthday and MVP renewal notification). After a long travel from London to Hyderabad after speaking at UK AIC 2010 conference, I was able to make it by half day here for my daughter's birthday, phew. Then next one awaiting official confirmation about MVP renewal (April - Mar cycle), woo hooo here is one.... Dear Satya Jayanty, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2010 Microsoft® MVP Award...(read more)

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Good News for Women in Technology - Barbie Has Joined the IT Scene

- by KKline

Notice the bluetooth ear piece fashion faux pas? Yes, she's truly a geek. I'm happy to report that Barbie is now a cognizeti, a digerati, ... yes even an IT Professional! This year's new Barbie is Computer Engineer Barbie . Several months back, I encouraged all my friends and followers on Twitter to vote for the IT job for Barbie in Mattel's recent public job selection for the eponymous doll. That encouragement was founded in an experience I'd had years earlier - becoming a dad to a very beautiful...(read more)

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IBM DB2 and the “'DbProviderFactories' section can only appear once per config” error

- by Davide Mauri

IBM doesn’t like MS. That’s a fact. And that’s why you can get your machine.config file (!!!) corrupted if you try to install IBM DB2 data providers on your server machine. If at some point, after having installed IBM DB2 data providers your SSIS packages or SSAS cubes or SSRS Reports starts to complain that 'DbProviderFactories' section can only appear once per config you may want to check into you machine.config, located in the %runtime install path%\Config http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229697%28v=vs.71%29.aspx Almost surely you’ll find a IBM DB2 Provider into an additional DbProviderFactories section all alone. Poor guy. Remove the double DBProviderFactories entry, and merge everything inside only one section DBProviderFactories and after that everything will start to work again.

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An OLAP client!

- by Davide Mauri

While surfing CodePlex I’ve come across a very interesting tool for all BI Developers who misses a decent OLAP client where to write, run & test MDX queries http://ranetuilibraryolap.codeplex.com/ I’ve not tested it yet, but I’ll surely do this week and I’ll post my impressions ASAP. The first impression, just looking the CodePlex page, is that tool Rocks!!!!! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

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Denali Paging–Key seek lookups

- by Dave Ballantyne

In my previous post “Denali Paging – is it win.win ?” I demonstrated the use of using the Paging functionality within Denali. On reflection, I think i may of been a little unfair and should of continued always planned to continue my investigations to the next step. In Pauls article, he uses a combination of ctes to first scan the ordered keys which is then filtered using TOP and rownumber and then uses those keys to seek the data. So what happens if we replace the scanning portion of the code with the denali paging functionality. Heres the original procedure, we are going to replace the functionality of the Keys and SelectedKeys ctes : CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.FetchPageKeySeek @PageSize BIGINT, @PageNumber BIGINT AS BEGIN -- Key-Seek algorithm WITH Keys AS ( -- Step 1 : Number the rows from the non-clustered index -- Maximum number of rows = @PageNumber * @PageSize SELECT TOP (@PageNumber * @PageSize) rn = ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY P1.post_id ASC), P1.post_id FROM dbo.Post P1 ORDER BY P1.post_id ASC ), SelectedKeys AS ( -- Step 2 : Get the primary keys for the rows on the page we want -- Maximum number of rows from this stage = @PageSize SELECT TOP (@PageSize) SK.rn, SK.post_id FROM Keys SK WHERE SK.rn > ((@PageNumber - 1) * @PageSize) ORDER BY SK.post_id ASC ) SELECT -- Step 3 : Retrieve the off-index data -- We will only have @PageSize rows by this stage SK.rn, P2.post_id, P2.thread_id, P2.member_id, P2.create_dt, P2.title, P2.body FROM SelectedKeys SK JOIN dbo.Post P2 ON P2.post_id = SK.post_id ORDER BY SK.post_id ASC; END; and here is the replacement procedure using paging: CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.FetchOffsetPageKeySeek @PageSize BIGINT, @PageNumber BIGINT AS BEGIN -- Key-Seek algorithm WITH SelectedKeys AS ( SELECT post_id FROM dbo.Post P1 ORDER BY post_id ASC OFFSET @PageSize * (@PageNumber-1) ROWS FETCH NEXT @PageSize ROWS ONLY ) SELECT P2.post_id, P2.thread_id, P2.member_id, P2.create_dt, P2.title, P2.body FROM SelectedKeys SK JOIN dbo.Post P2 ON P2.post_id = SK.post_id ORDER BY SK.post_id ASC; END; Notice how all i have done is replace the functionality with the Keys and SelectedKeys CTEs with the paging functionality. So , what is the comparative performance now ?. Exactly the same amount of IO and memory usage , but its now pretty obvious that in terms of CPU and overall duration we are onto a winner.

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Simple Criminal Minds

- by andyleonard

My favorite mother-in-law hooked my bride on the television series Criminal Minds during her last visit. I started watching the show as well, and sort of followed along. I was ok with the show until a recent episode in which Fonzie used his motorcycle to jump a shark in a pool in front of Al's. Ok, wrong show. Sort of. For those unfamiliar with the show, Criminal Minds is about the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit. Profilers, in other words. They're called to various places around the country to profile...(read more)

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CPU's on Hyper-V host system is just idling, even though VM's are at full throttle

- by Bjørn

Hello, I have a server that is running Windows 2008 64 bit Hyper-V, with 8 gigs of RAM and Intel Xeon X3440 @ 2.53 Ghz, which gives me 8 logical cores in the performance monitor on the host system. I have set up three Virtual Machines, all running Windows 2008 32 bit. Build server, running Team City Staging server SQL Server, running SQL Server 2005 These three machines are running very sluggishly, they are at 100% cpu even though the host system is barely using any cpu at all, typically below 10% total. Could anyone please give some tips as to the best setup for CPU allocating? Should I have set each server to have two cores, or should I increase this number above the total number of cores on the host? What is a good number to set on the Virtual Machine Reserve and Virtual Machine Limit? Is 8 gigs of physical RAM insufficient for 3 VM's? Thanks for reading. :)

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#PowerPivot Workshop Online for America’s Time Zones #ppws

- by Marco Russo (SQLBI)

After so many request we have finally arranged a PowerPivot Workshop online edition dedicated to America’s time zones! It is scheduled for December 19-20, 2012, with this schedule: US Eastern Time (EST): 10:00am-1:00pm / 2:00pm-5:00pm US Central Time (CST): 9:00am-12:00pm / 1:00pm-4:00pm US Pacific Time (PST): 7:00am-10:00am / 11:00am-1:00pm Bogotá (Colombia): 10:00am-1:00pm / 2:00pm-5:00pm São Paulo (Brazil): 1:00pm-4:00pm / 5:00pm-8:00pm Buenos Aires (Argentina): 12:00pm-3:00pm / 4:00pm-7:00pm...(read more)

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Intel Xeon 5600 (Westmere-EP) and AMD Magny-Cours Performance Update

- by jchang

HP has just released TPC-C and TPC-E results for the ProLiant DL380G7 with 2 Xeon 5680 3.33GHz 6-core processor, allowing a direct comparison with their DL385G& with 2 Opteron 6176 2.3GHz 12-core processors. Last month I complained about the lack of performance results for the Intel Xeon 5600 6-core 32nm processor line for 2-way systems. This might have been deliberate to not complicate the message for the Xeon 7500 8-core 45nm (for 4-way+ systems) launch two weeks later. http://sqlblog.com/blogs/joe_chang/archive/2010/04/07/intel-xeon-5600-westmere-ep-and-7500-nehalem-ex.aspx...(read more)

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Copy Only Backups for Adhoc Backups

Introduction In most organizations backup plans are implemented using full differential and transactional log backups. The normal scenario would be take a full backup on Sunday (off peak hours), differential backup daily at mid-night and transactional log backups on hourly basis. What ... [Read Full Article]

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Reverse Engineering a Server Side Trace

How to reverse engineer or script a trace for disaster recovery, or simply scripting for enhance and adjustment.

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Book Review (Book 10) - The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

- by BuckWoody

This is a continuation of the books I challenged myself to read to help my career - one a month, for year. You can read my first book review here, and the entire list is here. The book I chose for March 2012 was: The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick. I was traveling at the end of last month so I’m a bit late posting this review here. Why I chose this book: My personal belief about computing is this: All computing technology is simply re-arranging data. We take data in, we manipulate it, and we send it back out. That’s computing. I had heard from some folks about this book and it’s treatment of data. I heard that it dealt with the basics of data - and the semantics of data, information and so on. It also deals with the earliest forms of history of information, which fascinates me. It’s similar I was told, to GEB which a favorite book of mine as well, so that was a bonus. Some folks I talked to liked it, some didn’t - so I thought I would check it out. What I learned: I liked the book. It was longer than I thought - took quite a while to read, even though I tend to read quickly. This is the kind of book you take your time with. It does in fact deal with the earliest forms of human interaction and the basics of data. I learned, for instance, that the genesis of the binary communication system is based in the invention of telegraph (far-writing) codes, and that the earliest forms of communication were expensive. In fact, many ciphers were invented not to hide military secrets, but to compress information. A sort of early “lol-speak” to keep the cost of transmitting data low! I think the comparison with GEB is a bit over-reaching. GEB is far more specific, fanciful and so on. In fact, this book felt more like something fro Richard Dawkins, and tended to wander around the subject quite a bit. I imagine the author doing his research and writing each chapter as a book that followed on from the last one. This is what possibly bothered those who tended not to like it, I think. Towards the middle of the book, I think the author tended to be a bit too fragmented even for me. He began to delve into memes, biology and more - I think he might have been better off breaking that off into another work. The existentialism just seemed jarring. All in all, I liked the book. I recommend it to any technical professional, specifically ones involved with data technology in specific. And isn’t that all of us? :)

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Why "Tailoring" Your Resume Is Bad

- by Mike C

I was just writing a response to a comment on my "Sell Yourself!" presentation ( http://sqlblog.com/blogs/michael_coles/archive/2010/12/05/sell-yourself-presentation.aspx#comments ), and it started getting a little lengthy so I decided to turn it into a blog post. The "Sell Yourself!" post got a couple of very good comments on the blog, and quite a few more comments offline. I think I'll start this one with a great exchange from the movie "The Princess Bride": Vizzini: HE DIDN'T FALL? INCONCEIVABLE....(read more)

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IBM System x3850 X5 TPC-H Benchmark

- by jchang

IBM just published a TPC-H SF 1000 result for their x3850 X5 , 4-way Xeon 7560 system featuring a special MAX5 memory expansion board to support 1.5TB memory. In Dec 2010, IBM also published a TPC-H SF1000 for their Power 780 system, 8-way, quad-core, (4 logical processors per physical core). In Feb 2011, Ingres published a TPC-H SF 100 on a 2-way Xeon 5680 for their VectorWise column-store engine (plus enhancements for memory architecture, SIMD and compression). The figure table below shows TPC-H...(read more)

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