Wednesday, May 11, 2005

64bit in the everyday environment.
By the looks of this column is doesn't look too good (for the time being though).
Here you can find an interview with Simon Galbraith, co-founder of Red Gate.

"There is no one on the planet who can tell you with a greater degree of certainty that software marketing isn’t rocket science ?! "

Red Gate has some amazing tools for SQL Server; you should check them out.

Monday, May 09, 2005

Here's another interesting post about Memory Management in Windows.

https://blogs.msdn.com/slavao/archive/2005/01/29/363181.aspx
Service Pack 4 for SQL Server 2000 has been released!

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/downloads/2000/sp4.asp

In case you guys don't know her already.
She is one of the absolute gurus in the obscure SQL Server world :-)

http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/kimberly/

Her blog isn't updated on a daily basis but when she updates it you can be sure that it's very usefull information.

Here's an interesting article on JOIN hints.

Transact-SQL Blog: Optimizer Join Hints