August 2003 - Posts

SqlJunkies Logo Now Finished and Up - What do you Think?

posted Friday, August 22, 2003 4:49 PM by DonnyMack
Well, what do you think???
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Amazing Benchmark Site

posted Monday, August 11, 2003 12:25 PM by DonnyMack

You may have already been there, but if you haven't you should check out TCP.org Transaction Processing Coucil. Here is information from their About Us page:

 

About the TPC
 
What Is TPC

Overview Mission
The TPC is a non-profit corporation founded to define transaction processing and database benchmarks and to disseminate objective, verifiable TPC performance data to the industry.

Scope
The term transaction is often applied to a wide variety of business and computer functions. Looked at as a computer function, a transaction could refer to a set of operations including disk read/writes, operating system calls, or some form of data transfer from one subsystem to another.

While TPC benchmarks certainly involve the measurement and evaluation of computer functions and operations, the TPC regards a transaction as it is commonly understood in the business world: a commercial exchange of goods, services, or money. A typical transaction, as defined by the TPC, would include the updating to a database system for such things as inventory control (goods), airline reservations (services), or banking (money).

In these environments, a number of customers or service representatives input and manage their transactions via a terminal or desktop computer connected to a database. Typically, the TPC produces benchmarks that measure transaction processing (TP) and database (DB) performance in terms of how many transactions a given system and database can perform per unit of time, e.g., transactions per second or transactions per minute.
Benchmark Status Report — Mailing List
If you would like to receive the TPC Benchmark Status Report via e-mail six times a year, please click here.
TPC Membership Applications
Full Membership
Full Members of the TPC participate in all aspects of the TPC's work, including development of benchmark standards and setting strategic direction. Full Membership costs $15,000 per calendar year. Click here for the Full Membership Application.

Associate Membership
Certain organizations may joing the TPC as Associate Members. Associate Members may attend TPC meetings, but are not eligible to vote or hold office. Associate Membership costs $1500 per calendar year and is only available to the following types of organizations: non-profit, educational institutions, market researchers, publishers, consultants, governments, businesses who do not create, market or sell computer products or services. Click here for the Associate Membership Application.
Contact the TPC
TPC
Presidio of San Francisco
Building 572B (surface)
P.O. Box 29920 (mail) San Francisco, CA 94129-0920
Voice: 415-561-6272
Fax: 415-561-6120
Email: info@tpc.org
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Our First Official SQL Server Team SQL Blogger

posted Thursday, August 07, 2003 3:31 PM by DonnyMack

Matt Nunn:

Product Manager, SQL Server 

Read More: http://sqljunkies.com/WebLog/mattnunn/

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Yet Another Blogger

posted Wednesday, August 06, 2003 9:36 AM by DonnyMack

Debora http://www.sqljunkies.com/weblog/orfda/

Who will be blogging on analysis services, olap, mdx, oltp, data warehousing  amoung others!

Enjoy

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Do you have a Weblog or personal web site and plan to attend the PDC?

posted Wednesday, August 06, 2003 9:22 AM by DonnyMack

Do you have a Weblog or personal web site and plan to attend the PDC?  Maybe you have a friend that does?  

Let the world know that you'll be at PDC 2003, by adding a PDC 2003 We'll be there button to your Weblog.


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We Have Another Great SQL Blogger Onboard

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2003 10:35 AM by DonnyMack

Not sure if he's posted yet, I just set him up but watch out for: http://www.sqljunkies.com/WebLog/f_Eriksen/ 

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Arrays and Lists in Stored Procedures

posted Sunday, August 03, 2003 6:08 PM by DonnyMack

Good article on using Arrays and Lists in Stored Procedures

http://www.algonet.se/~sommar/arrays-in-sql.html

 

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Looking for SQL Server Sites

posted Saturday, August 02, 2003 9:57 AM by DonnyMack

Hello all,

I need some help spreading the word of SqlJunkies Web Logs. I'm looking for larger SQL sites where I can post information about the Blogs. Obviously, if the site already has a blog engine running this would not be my target audience. Basically, I want to make sure that eveyone out there is aware that they have a home for blogging on SQL related subjects.

Thanks for any feedback you might have

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The First Official SQL Junkies Blogger

posted Friday, August 01, 2003 3:20 PM by DonnyMack

Everyone welcome Mallik. He is our first officially signed up and live SQL Junkies Blogger besides myself of course!

http://sqljunkies.com/WebLog/Mallik/

Oops, I have to edit, I just started #2 Jeff Julian

http://sqljunkies.com/WebLog/jeffjulian/

who also has a .NET blog here: http://jjulian.geekswithblogs.com/ 

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Day One Roundup of SQLJunkies.com Web Logs

posted Friday, August 01, 2003 2:17 PM by DonnyMack

Well, I woke up to about 5 SQL Server GURU's who want to start blogging with SqlJunkies - I'm very excited at the response considering we just propogated yesterday. Additionally, I'm working with some internal Microsoft people to get some SQL Server DEV's on blogging regularly. This will be great considering a lot of them will most likely be giving insider info. on YUKON!

Well, we should have some new bloggers start blogging soon so stay tuned.

Special thanks to Matt Nunn ( SQL Server Group MS) and Scott, the designer of these here blogs for all their support so far.

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