Tony Davis : July 2007

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July 2007 - Posts

SQL Server Performance Bugbears

Posted Wednesday, July 11, 2007 3:49 PM | 3 Comments

Whilst trying out Robyn and Phil's excellent TSQL Newsfeed, some of the first articles that I saw was Linchi Shea's fascinating Blog entries about the performance impact of not using owner-qualified stored procedure calls. I had no knowledge of this particular Read More

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July 2007

Investigating SQL Server 2008 Wait Events with XEVENTS

Some reasons for the slow-running of database applications aren't obvious. Occasionally, even the... Read more...

Controlling Email Messages using Exchange's Transport Rules

Some tasks that should have been easy in previous versions of Exchange just weren't. Now, with... Read more...

Software Tool design: The Three Rs

To understand the full extent of the requirements of your users when you are redesigning a software... Read more...

JSON and other data serialization languages

The easiest way to speed up an Ajax application is to take out the 'X' and use JSON rather than XML. Of... Read more...

Embedding Help so it will be used

It is not good enough to make assumptions about the way that users go about getting help when they use... Read more...