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To download all code samples presented in this book, visit the following url. He is also an adjunct faculty member at university college. Im finally getting back to the tools of the trade series with a third post on some of my favorite and free sql server tools. Glenn is heavily involved in the sql server community, and is a frequent speaker at user groups, sql saturdays, and the pass community summit. Glenn berry is a principal consultant with sqlskills. Sql questions and answers at sql intersection fall 2019. Useful links, scripts, tools and best practice for microsoft sql server database ktaranovsqlserver kit. Free sql server hardware will provide the fundamental knowledge and resources you need. Basic sql server monitoring glenns sql server performance. You probably just tell your sysadmins, i need a 2socket server with 32gb of memory. A new book, sql server hardware, tells you what you need to know about your hardware before you create your database. Learn how to correctly choose server hardware for sql server 2012, including workload evaluation, sql server 2012 edition hardware limits and licensing costs, processor and storage choice, and redundancy components and effects. Servermonitor only works on sql server 2008 or newer.
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Sql server 2008 administration in action, by rod colledge. This month, i have done more minor improvements, especially for sql server 2019. Glenn berry is a wizard when it comes to hardware and sql server. Hardware 201 selecting and sizing database hardware for. Hardware information from sql server 2017 query 17 hardware info. The amount of diagnostic goodies we have inside the engine is just astounding. He is also an adjunct faculty member at university college university of denver, where he has been teaching since 2000. He has been a sql server mvp since 2007, and he has a whole collection of microsoft certifications, including mcitp, mcdba, mcse, mcsd, mcad, and mcts, which proves that he likes to take tests.
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