Recommended reading from mrdenny for August 17, 2012

This week I've found some great things for you to read. These are a few of my favorites that I've found this week. HOW TO: Use the Database Engine Tuning Advisor in Microsoft SQL Server #sqlserver SQL Server 2012: Migrating BLOBs to FILETABLEs #sqlserver Book: Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server 2012 #sqlserver In the […]

Recommended reading from mrdenny for August 17, 2012

This week I've found some great things for you to read. These are a few of my favorites that I've found this week. HOW TO: Use the Database Engine Tuning Advisor in Microsoft SQL Server #sqlserver SQL Server 2012: Migrating BLOBs to FILETABLEs #sqlserver Book: Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server 2012 #sqlserver In the […]

Optimizing Microsoft SQL Server Performance in a Virtual Environment (Video)

This was reposted from SQL Server http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/DBI317 written by (author unknown). They get all the credit for this, not me. In this session, learn what you should be looking at within your virtual environment to ensure you are getting the performance you should out of it. This includes how to look for CPU performance issues […]

Upgrading Windows 8 RP to RTM

So as we all know Microsoft hates allowing upgrades of OSs from Beta/CTP/RC/RP (or whatever) to RTM (Release To Manufacturing) bits.  However thankfully Microsoft has made it easy enough to do anyway.  Simply take your ISO/USB/CD/DVD or whatever install media you plan on using and make it writeable in some way (I’ll leave this to you to […]