Articles by Warwick Rudd

Microsoft Tech-ED Australia 2011 which is being held on the Gold Coast, QLD from Aug 30 – Sep 2 is..

SQLQueryStress is a performance testing tool, which has been designed to allow you to load test individual queries. This tool..

Are you a SQL Server DBA that from time to time has encountered some sort of performance issues with your..

Microsoft has released Service Pack 1 Community Technology Preview for you download as of 22 April 2011. If you want..

In this blog I am going to give you an insight into how easy it is to generate random data..

On Monday 9th May 2011 the release of the SQL Server Compression Estimator Tool was made available on Codeplex  for..

Australia's Microsoft Tech-Ed event is on again on the Gold Coast from August 30 – September 2 2011.

Microsoft has released a new KB article on not disabling the guest user in the MSDB. This has been released to counter the recommendations found in BOL.

A new tool became available on the 27th April 2011 and is available for download from Codeplex . This tool..

Being on-call I received an alert for a client with the following message – ‘The following jobs(s) failed to execute..

When building a Windows Server 2008 Stretch cluster you may experience some issues when adding some clustered disk. In this blog I discuss how to get around this issue and how to use cluster.exe to achieve the desired outcome with a working Cluster.

SQL Server error logs can grow quite large due to an issue or from infrequent cycling of the log file. If these log files get to large then you are not able to read the contents either through SSMS or a file editor. This blog takes you through how to read the log using xp_readerrorlog.