Monthly Archives: August 2010

Read-only Filegroups, Page Splits/sec and Error 825

You may wonder what these three things have in common. Before you try to play Carnac the Magnificent, humor me for a quick and high-level review of each. A read-only filegroup is one from which data can only be read, not written or updated. Fairly obvious, but it’s always good to define terms. Before marking…

SQLCruise – Day 1

Day 1 of SQLCruise is in the books! We’re docked in the Florida Keys this morning for our first stop and I have internet connectivity, so I wanted to share my perspective of the trip thus far. Note: There are technical posts in the works. It’s just hard for me to not write about SQLCruise…