Vinod Kumar Mindmap : Performance

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vinodkumar — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:25:00 GMT

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...(read more)

PowerPivot for Excel 2010

vinodkumar — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:26:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Extending Life of your Computer - Tips

vinodkumar — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:28:00 GMT

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...(read more)

SQLCAT Articles – SQL 2008

vinodkumar — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:29:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Web Application Toolkits – V1.0

vinodkumar — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:00:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Estimated Vs Actual rows

vinodkumar — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:27:39 GMT

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...(read more)

Service Broker – Bookmarker

vinodkumar — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:48:00 GMT

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...(read more)

P&P Developing SharePoint Applications V2 Released

vinodkumar — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:20:23 GMT

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...(read more)

Springboard Virtual Roundtable - Sept 24 - Windows 7 AppCompat Part 2: Virtualization

vinodkumar — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:36:00 GMT

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...(read more)

How much data changes since last backup

vinodkumar — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:44:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Data Loading Performance Guide

vinodkumar — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:35:00 GMT

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...(read more)

I/O impact and Fragmentation - SAN and DAS

vinodkumar — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 05:39:00 GMT

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 ....(read more)

SSRS - Scalability Links

vinodkumar — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:24:00 GMT

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...(read more)