2011-09-15
11,077 reads
David Poole
- Interests: Badminton, Cycling and Music. Keen piano player.
An nHibernate Head Scratcher
An interesting mystery on why some nHibernate performance issues might exist on your systems. Read this piece from SQL Server expert David Poole and look to see if this is a problem you can easily solve in your environment.
2011-04-11
6,112 reads
Excel with Stored Procedures
Longtime DBA David Poole brings us an interesting situation in involving setting up a user to allow Excel to query data from SQL Server.
2010-08-13 (first published: 2008-08-13)
60,641 reads
A Quick Look at the MPP World
David Poole takes a look at the Massively Parallel Processing world for database servers.
2010-08-11
4,533 reads
Time Bomb Design - A Longer Fuse
In a sequel to his first article on Time Bomb Design, David Poole examines the issues we find between development environments and production ones.
2010-05-26
10,414 reads
Scaling Out the Distribution Database
Replication is a great technology for moving data from one server to another, and it has a great many configuration options. David Poole brings us a technique for scaling out with multiple distribution databases.
2010-03-30
9,742 reads
Time Bomb Coding
Do your system contain a time bomb in the code? David Poole looks at some potential situations where you might be experiencing performance issues and delves into why.
2010-02-10
17,699 reads
Accidently Agile
Longtime SQL Server expert David Poole brings us a look at Agile Development and how he's been converted. (From Feb 2008)
2009-09-18 (first published: 2008-02-14)
12,675 reads
Database Documentation Using Red Gate's SQLDoc
Longtime author David Poole has written an excellent article about using SQLDoc, from Red Gate Software. Learn how you can document your own databases in this sponsored article.
2009-08-10
3,251 reads
My Approach to Writing for SQLServerCentral
Are you looking to raise your profile? Add something to your resume? Consider writing for SQLServerCentral. Longtime author and expert David Poole gives us some hints.
2009-06-19
2,927 reads
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Set a Runtime Variable in an Azure DevOps Pipeline
By Steve Jones
Note: I DO NOT recommend this. Any changes to a pipeline should be in...
A New Word: Symptomania
By Steve Jones
symptomania – n. the fantasy that there’s some elaborate diagnosis out there that neatly...
Query Store Keeps Switching Itself Off, Getting it Moving Again
I recently received a complaint that Query Store for a particular database was turned...
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