Keeping Your Speaking Commitments

Many event organizers are way too polite to publicly admit that this problem exists as badly as it does.  But a problem has been showing up way to much recently.  The problem which I speak of is session speakers not showing up for their sessions, and the even bigger problem of speakers not showing up […]

Recommended reading from mrdenny for March 15, 2013

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. VMware vCloud Transfer spooling area is not writable Storage Engine Caching, Measures and Measure Groups Running T-SQL and returning Print information Dell EqualLogic MasterClass 2012 – Part 1 Performance Problems with SQL […]

Recommended reading from mrdenny for March 15, 2013

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. VMware vCloud Transfer spooling area is not writable Storage Engine Caching, Measures and Measure Groups Running T-SQL and returning Print information Dell EqualLogic MasterClass 2012 – Part 1 Performance Problems with SQL […]

Deleting LOB Data and Shrinking the Database

While attending SQL Saturday 194 in Exeter over in England one of the attendees came to Mladen Prajdić, Andre Kamman and myself with an interesting problem.  She had a database table which was about 200 Gigs in size which she wanted to delete about half of the data from the table.  The catch was that the […]