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Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/C/0/5C0BD0AB-040D-4C56-A60B-661001012DDA/Windows_Server_2008_R2_e-book.pdf Learn about the new features of Windows Server 2008 R2 in the areas of virtualization, management, the...
Posted 11-09-2009 by vinodkumar | with no comments
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PowerPivot for Excel 2010
I just installed the internal Beta of Office 2010 and couldn’t wait to see this new add-in working. PowerPivot for Excel is a data analysis tool that delivers unmatched computational power directly within the application users already know and love—Microsoft...
Posted 10-20-2009 by vinodkumar | 2 comment(s)
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Extending Life of your Computer - Tips
Recently, I have had the opportunity to replace my home laptop and one of my demo Laptops because of different reasons. I have been a bit relaxed on maintaining these laptops and hence the headaches followed and some resolution had to be made. Now that...
Posted 10-15-2009 by vinodkumar | 3 comment(s)
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SQLCAT Articles – SQL 2008
The SQL Server Customer Advisory Team handles tons and tons of large deployments and they try to go ahead and document all their findings for the benefit of the larger community. Their whitepapers are generally loaded with loads of information that I...
Posted 10-07-2009 by vinodkumar | with no comments
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Web Application Toolkits – V1.0
I think we maybe a bit late to talk about these, nevertheless it is worth mentioning. Recently a week back MS launched the WebsiteSpark initiative and this surely has brought all the buzz in the web world and it surely is catching some spark in a number...
Posted 09-30-2009 by vinodkumar | 1 comment(s)
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Estimated Vs Actual rows
I have seen this as a constant struggle to understand even when people come to the performance labs in our environments. Today I got a chance to read this post from Gail Shaw on Estimated rows, actual rows and execution count which are all a common areas...
Posted 09-22-2009 by vinodkumar | 1 comment(s)
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Service Broker – Bookmarker
Since SQL Server 2005 this feature of Service Broker has been in the outside world but in my opinion is an underutilized feature. In SQL Server 2008 the capabilities atleast from a UI has been addressed partially via the Management Studio which was one...
Posted 09-10-2009 by vinodkumar | with no comments
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P&P Developing SharePoint Applications V2 Released
Developing SharePoint Applications guidance integrates new guidance with the original release, SharePoint Guidance – November 2008 , into a single download. The guidance contains the following components: SharePoint Guidance Library A set of reusable...
Posted 09-05-2009 by vinodkumar | with no comments
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Springboard Virtual Roundtable - Sept 24 - Windows 7 AppCompat Part 2: Virtualization
This session comes directly from the heart of the most respected person on the planet for me "Mark Russinovich". No one can talk as authentic and as deep technical than this man. Dont miss the action as you are sure to get lot of fireworks and...
Posted 09-03-2009 by vinodkumar | 2 comment(s)
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How much data changes since last backup
Paul Randal has a wonderful post that tells you how much of data has changed since the last full backup. A wonderful script to have in handy ... Read the blog post here . Now with this script one can take a informed decision if they want to take a differencial...
Posted 07-02-2009 by vinodkumar | with no comments
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Data Loading Performance Guide
This was floating on our internal technical groups and one of my friend pointed me to this interesting article which I have become a bit of a fan. This is a whitepaper on how do various Data Loading techniques work and how their performance is comparable...
Posted 02-14-2009 by vinodkumar | with no comments
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I/O impact and Fragmentation - SAN and DAS
Saw this 4 part series from Linchi Shea (MVP - SQL Server) up on their blogs. Some raw statitistics to backup some of the theories are very refreshing. Check the posts - Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 and Part 4 .
Posted 12-29-2008 by vinodkumar | 1 comment(s)
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SSRS - Scalability Links
At the recently concluded GISV Days in Pune one of the gentleman had asked questions around how to scale SSRS and I had promised to drop the set of links here over my blog. So here are those links. Reporting Services Scale-Out Deployment Best Practices...
Posted 12-16-2008 by vinodkumar | with no comments
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