Recommended reading from mrdenny for January 25, 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. PASS Summit: What’s all the hype? Server Dump Teaching a Man to Fish With a Computer CTO Says Al-Khabaz Expulsion Shows CS Departments Stuck In “Pre-Internet Era”   This weeks SQL Server […]

NOLOCK is not a turbo button

All to often when talking to developers they put the WITH (NOLOCK) table hint in place to speed up queries without understanding what the table hint does.  I’ve even run across companies that have policies in place that every select statement must have the WITH (NOLOCK) table hint. The WITH (NOLOCK) table hint isn’t a […]

Recommended reading from mrdenny for January 18, 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. Learn to Speak DBA Slang VMware vCloud 5.1 Networking for dummies Backup File Naming Convention Another Java Exploit For Sale Windows 8 without Metro – Looks like this post was removed after […]

Pleased to Announce That I’m an EMC Elect Award Winner for 2013.

I’m pleased to announce that I’m adding another IT award to my collection.  EMC has created an award program which is designed to reward members of the community who are influential and knowledgeable about EMC’s products, specifically those who share this knowledge with others.  This award from EMC is called the “EMC Elect” award.  For […]