Show 2 – Death to UDFs

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On our 2nd show, we start by talking about our trips. Matan shares about how great SQLBits was (including the custome party), and Guy talks about WPC (Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference). He explains what WPC is, about the Microsoft vision and its effects on the DBA's work.
We then talk about interesting blog posts, forum discussions, news and incidant we encountered in the last month:

The less known but deadly drawback of User Defined Functions
The real meaning of Blocking Iterators
The real meaning of PAGEIOLATCH waits
Perofrmance monitoring and baselines
Automatic code
And more..

Items mentioned in the show:

Adam Machanic - Query Tuning Mastery: The Art and Science of Manhandling Paralellism
Paul Randal - Knee-Jerk Wait Statistics : PAGEIOLATCH_SH
Eitan Blumin - Let SQL Server Write Code for You
Avi Niv - Generating Email Reports using XML
Kendal Van Dyke – Troubleshooting Transactional Replication
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