CPU issues have long been the bane of database and system administrators. I have worked on enterprise databases since the mid-1980s and seen three significant eras for CPU architecture and ...

Hi everyone! It's great to be back on Database Trends and Applications magazine. While I dropped out of the regular columnist position for quite a while, I was still hard at it promoting strong ...

I came in Monday morning to find that our SQL server running SQL 2000 was hung. I have a rudimentary monitoring system setup that pings machines (no money for anything more :-( ) but it didn't alert ...

This week we will discuss one of the most common error messages we get while we install the SQL version of Windows. This is the third article of the SQL ...