Archive | June, 2010

Warehouse Design Tip / Partitioning

Introduction This topic seems so simple, and so obvious to me, and do not mean to insult anyone’s intelligence.  However, it is shocking to me the number of people that I have talked to (running large databases) that are not taking advantage  of one of the best performance, and manageability enhancements out there!  Think about […]

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Presenting Data Warehouse Disk Configuration for PASS BI

I am honored to present Data Warehouse Disk Configuration to the PASS BI Virtual Chapter Thursday June 10th at Noon EDT via LiveMeeting! Details here. Speaker Rate Me! This is a FULL hour, normally a 75 minute presentation, so be prepared for a lot of information at a quick pace!  I hope you can join me for […]

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My Favorite New(ish) 2008 Feature (Resource Governor)

I have written in the past about setting up the resource governor, which I am counting as my favorite new(ish) feature, so I am taking this TSQL2sday post opportunity do my promised followup for monitoring of the resource governor. Introduction To start with, my advice about the resource governor is to start small.  Have some idea […]

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