A business I support recently purchased an add on to the pos software they use. It uses .net 3 and sql server express 2005.<BR><BR>Their support tech came out and installed some new hardware (not ...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want to speed up your application, don't look at your code, look at your data access. The two slowest things you can do in application development are ...

I have a Debian install with KVM + Libvirt love. I've got a Windows Server 2008 R2 VM running with 3 drives. Originally they were set to VirtIO, but I have since changed two of the three to SATA. The ...

How about “Dude, Where Is My Memory? Understanding Microsoft SQL Server Memory Usage and Management” by Maciej Pilecki. I thought SQL Server just grabbed all the memory it could and never gave it back ...