Recommended reading from mrdenny for July 25, 2014

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. CodeSOD: Offshore Obfuscation Coffee Beats Wireless Nursing the Plan Along How to Cluster Analysis Services SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for April 2014 This weeks SQL Server person to follow on Twitter […]

How to Get Rid of My Magazine On Your New Android Phone

Recently I picked up the new Samsung S5 from Verizon. Over all it’s a great phone, but one REALLY annoying thing which is shoved down your throat is the  “My Magazine” feature which sits to the pane to the left of the home screen. So if you are on the home screen and swipe left […]

Recommended reading from mrdenny for July 18, 2014

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. Watch Microsoft’s ‘Empowering’ ad from the Big Game Troubleshooting the new Cardinality Estimator Data-intensive Applications in the Cloud Computing World Tracking execution stats of SQL Server 2014 natively-compiled sprocs Classic WTF: The […]

Why Should I Backup Dev & QA Servers?

While the development and QA servers are by definition not customer facing production servers, they are in fact production servers to some. In this case they are production servers for your Development and QA teams. Because of this I always recommend backing up development and QA servers to my clients. The dev and QA teams […]