Category Archives: SQLCruise

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…

SQLCruise and all it includes

SQLCruise sets sail next Monday, though for many cruisers activities begin on Saturday with South Florida’s SQL Saturday #40. I am on vacation this week with my family and I have been a little out of touch with Twitter and cruise-related emails. Imagine my surprise when I had almost 70 emails from my fellow cruisers…