I am starting off this week’s Reading List with an article related to Hotfix Service Model. This article has good information on how Microsoft SQL Server team uses the Incremental Model to deliver hotfixes to SQL Server.
A new hotfix was recently released to fix the issue of series of messages while restarting SQL Server 2005 through SSMS. This issue happens when SQL Server 2005 and Biz Talk Server 2006 are installed on the same server. Read more about this here.
Next is an interesting article by Kalen Delaney (b | t) on The Pros and Cons of Parameter Sniffing.
Are you using Database Mirroring and the transaction log is growing huge during Index maintenance? If yes, Kimberly L. Tripp (b | t) and Paul Randal (b | t) discuss about a different approach to index maintenance on mirrored database in this article.
That’s all for this week. Happy learning!