June S3OLV Wrapup

Last night we had our monthly Chapter User group meeting in affiliation with PASS.  Honestly, the experience was quite humbling and embarrassing.  What could one do though given the circumstances?  You may be wondering what […]

Data Compression

I see database compression, as offered with SQL 2008, to be more like these file compression utilities than DriveSpace.  Data compression in SQL 2008 is not an all or none implementation.  You get to pick and choose what gets compressed.  That is a big time bonus for me.

June 2010 S3OLV Meeting

The S3OLV monthly meeting is being held this Thursday.  We will be meeting at the same location and time as usual.  This month we have a couple of vendors coming to speak.  Fusion IO and […]

Defensive Database Programming Chapter 01

Today I am finally getting around to the review of the first chapter as promised.  I talked about the book a bit in the first post on the subject, which can be found here.  This […]