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70-450: Complete!
After another month of studying, I finally took the 70-450. I'm happy to say I passed! I did learn one thing from the exam: I should spend more time with
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70-450: IO Throughput
Today I'm getting back to studying for the 70-450. To follow up the last few articles I'm still in the first bullet point from the official guide. Designing a
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70-450: Calculating Table Size
In my previous three posts I covered different RAID solutions, and when I use each type of RAID. That's just the first part of the first section of the 70-450.
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SQL Saturday #87 – Louisville, KY Recap
Starting Wednesday of last week I was able to attend the local SQL Server User Group and then that Saturday I attended SQL Saturday #87 in Louisville, KY! There
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70-450:Implementing RAID Solutions
Problem 1 Developers come to you with a new physical database server that hosts a single database. It's going to be your responsibility now. Currently the
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70-450: SQL and RAID 5/10
Continuing SQL and RAID, let's pick up RAID 5 and RAID 1+0 (or just 10) This content is still for the first skill measured in the 70-450, per the official
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70-450: SQL, RAID 0, RAID1
Let's get ready for the 70-450. Hit the official Microsoft page for the 450, and you'll see the first skills measured on the exam: Designing a SQL Server
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OK, so by now you've seen that SQL103 is finished! It's been great building out another class. I'll be presenting an hour session covering this same material at
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SQL103 – Designing Triggers
We've finally made it to the last post in the SQL103 series. I've written posts about triggers before. I've shared with you how triggers can be good things and
Year One on Azure: What We Got Right, What We Got Wrong
By late 2011, I'd been running production workloads on Azure for the better part of a year. Multiple clients, different workload sizes, SQL Azure and SQL Server IaaS both. Enough reps to have opinions that weren't guesses. Here's what I'd tell someone
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SQL 103-Designing Stored Procedures
We're nearing the end of the SQL103 series. We've designed tables, relationships, indexes and views. There's plenty more to learn. Today we're going to discuss
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SQL103 – Designing Indexes
So you've designed your tables, then you set up your primary and foreign keys. You even defined views that your programmers will use to present the data to end