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DevDays 2010, The Hague(NL)

Last week I did a session on SQL Server for Developers on DevDays. For those of you who are...

Date: 04/07/2010

Index Maintenance across all Databases in an Instance

I needed to make a job for a customer that rebuilds all indexes in an instance that have a...

Date: 07/30/2009

Reading PerfMon Counters in T-SQL with CLR

A collegue of mine asked me if it is possible to read out PerfMon counters that are not in the...

Date: 03/25/2009

Back again!

I didn't blog for a long time. For various reasons but the main reason is because I have been quite...

Date: 03/25/2009

TechEd IT Proffesionals 2008 EMEA Day 1

For the next two weeks I will be attending Teched in the beautiful city of Barcelona. I attended 2...

Date: 11/04/2008

Sync Framework

Today I'm working for a customer who wants to implement the Sync Framework. As you probably know the...

Date: 07/02/2008

Table Partitioning Conclusions

Today I tested all my code and made changes where I made mistakes. And I made quite a few! My...

Date: 07/01/2008

Table Partitioning Sliding Window Case

As I mentioned in my last post I'm currently working on a complex partitioning project for a...

Date: 06/30/2008

Table Partitioning Basics(2)

In my last blog I looked at SPLIT and MERGE operations on partition functions. SPLIT and MERGE are...

Date: 06/29/2008

Table Partitioning Basics

Partioning objects in SQL Server starts with defining Partition Functions and Partition Schema's....

Date: 06/28/2008

Synonyms and other Oracle stuff

Every now and then I meet Oracle specialists at customers sites. Sometimes they start a good...

Date: 06/26/2008

Table Partitioning in SQL2008(2)

Today I proceeded with partitioning a large table in SQL 2008. The objective is to build a partition...

Date: 06/26/2008

Table Partitioning in SQL 2008

At the moment I'm working for a client that wants to partition some tables. They need to do that...

Date: 06/25/2008

Introduction

Hi all, I'm Menzo Steinhost. I'm a SQL Server PFE based in the Netherlands. Before I came to...

Date: 06/24/2008