Brent Ozar Unlimited® Weekly Links, November 24th Edition

Let's pepper spray our way to Black Friday savings!   Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Black Friday Sale: Up to 90% off! The first 10 buyers get 90% off, the next 50 get 50% off, and the sales keep going all day. Brent's Links Cache is the New RAM Fifteen years of architecture condensed into one funny post with illustrations. 2014's Delayed Durability Paul Randal explains how it gives a throughput boost. Google Contributor Tired of seeing ads on the sites you love? Google Contributor lets you pay a fee to hide them. Or, you know, just use Adblock. Jeremiah's Links On Being Busy Is being busy the symptom or is it the real problem? Use That Database Great post describing different ways of interacting with the database. What? Other Databases? Round up describing different types of database. Kendra's Links Do you really need ORDER BY? Kenneth tests it out. Monitoring is hard Just ask Microsoft. They've released a fix for the log_send_rate metric to improve troubleshooting Availability Groups. Powershell and scheduled tasks I'm not a huge fan of scheduled tasks on SQL Servers. But if you must use them with PowerShell statements, here's a gotcha you should know. Brent on Reading the New Fast Track Reference Architectures from HP & EMC  Kendra discusses SQL Server's Cost Threshold for Parallelism Jeremiah asks When Does Index Fragmentation Matter? See Jes Corrupt Your Database - On Purpose! [Video] One form to register for them all: November 25: Oracle HA/DR Basics December 2: Brent's Wearing His Bad Idea Jeans December 2: Live SQL Server Health Check December 9: Why You Simply Must Have a Date Table December 11: The Secrets of TempDB Seriously, all free right here. Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend Subscribe to Our Feed  follow on Twitter | subscribe to our feed | forward to a friend  Copyright © 2014 Brent Ozar Unlimited��, All rights reserved. We're sending you this because you signed up for the BrentOzar.com Community. If you no longer want these community recaps, please unsubscribe. We're all about staying at Inbox Zero too. Our mailing address is: Brent Ozar Unlimited�� 9450 SW Gemini Dr ECM #45779 Beaverton, OR 97008 Add us to your address book  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences