Troubleshooting

Microsoft MAP tool – Helping you help yourself

Hey, With the release of MAP toolkit 7.0, Microsoft have taken a huge leap in making this tool more useful across the board. Previously, if you didn’t have the CPT Excel plugin also, manipulating data coming out of the tool wasn’t the most fun. Now however, it puts so much information at your fingertips so […]

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CPU Pressure on VM’s, not where you might think

Hi, ***Update 23/11/2011 – Issue identified, with thanks to Brian Carrig! Check the comments for the details *** Just a short one to share something interesting I found while using VMWare to run SQL Server in production. As soon as I get over the mad pre-Christmas rush, I hope to get posts out with more

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So you wanna be a DBA? SQL Certification is the way! Kind of…

Hey, So a less technical piece this week to touch on something I struggled to find information about when I was starting off. There comes a point where you accept the inevitable, and you decide you’re going to learn something about SQL Server. The logical decision is to go on a course, but what course,

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