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April 2010 - Posts

• Focus on Fast Track : My SQLBits VI Presentation

  For those of you interested in the principles of Fast Track I thought it’d be worth putting out my SQLBits VI presentation slide deck on my blog. It will of course be available from the SQLBits website in due course. In about 6 weeks time that will be Read More... Posted 25 April 2010 21:01 by James.Rowland-Jones | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server, SQL Server 2008, Fast Track Data Warehousing

• Focus on Fast Track : Understanding the –E Startup Parameter

  One of my focuses at the moment is the work that Microsoft have done with various hardware providers to deliver “Fast Track” – A reference architecture for SQL Server Data Warehousing that delivers predictable blistering performance on prescribed commodity Read More... Posted 25 April 2010 07:12 by James.Rowland-Jones | 5 Comments Filed under: SQL Server, SQL Server 2008, Data Warehousing, Fast Track Data Warehousing, Startup Parameters

• Enabling SQL Server Start-up Parameters – A Couple of Pitfalls

  In SQL Server there are a couple of ways to set startup parameters:  SQL Server Configuration Manager Command Prompt Net start Of these only one can be relied upon as a permanent option. That is the Configuration Manager.  I have been toying Read More... Posted 23 April 2010 08:55 by James.Rowland-Jones | 2 Comments Filed under: SQL Server, Database Administration, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server Internals, Fast Track Data Warehousing, Startup Parameters