Survivor Feedback You can picture the concept of Survivor as taking a harsh stance. Similar to the theory of evolution, Survival of the Fittest becomes a mantra. We remove our weak link so that the company can survive. Or, you can picture the concept of Survivor as motivation to help your company become efficient and competitive. Not for the purpose […]

Survivor Some might say that holding down a job today is similar to playing the USA reality TV game show "Survivor". For those of you located where the show is not broadcast, Survivor starts with two teams in a remote location where the contestants must survive the elements by building shelter and finding food. Individuals must cooperate in order to […]

Application Performance Optimization – Replication I have been talking about Sharding as a technique for improving application performance. Sharding distributes your data across multiple servers with the intention to allow multiple server to server requests for data. Replication is another technique that is a close cousin to sharding. Replication is a term that is well understood for Relational database engineers. […]

Application Optimization Techniques – Cache If you haven’t picked up on the trend of the recent topics, I have been looking at different application optimization techniques. We looked at sharding as a way to take advantage of multiple CPUs to handle data persistence to a physical disk. Today I wanted to introduce the concept of Cache. We all know Cache […]

SSWUG TV With Stephen Wynkoop Catch this inteview with SQL Server MVP Denny Cherry. Watch the Show Sharding Techniques Sharding doesn’t have to be performed inside a data engine. In fact, a relational data engine may be sharded externally, just as easily as any other data storage technique. I received an Email from Liran who has written extensively on the […]