Ron Talmage is a mentor and co-founder of Solid Quality Mentors. He is a SQL Server MVP, a PASS Regional Mentor, and current president of the Pacific Northwest SQL Server Users Group. He has been writing white papers and articles on SQL Server since way back when.

Articles Authored

• SQL Server 2008: Two Winning Features
• SQL Server Database Mirroring Roles: Instance versus Database
• SQL Server 2008 Under the Hood: Compression Technologies
• Performance Counters on the 64-bit Road Less Travelled
• The x64 Path Less Travelled
• Moving a Database: Dependencies
• Methods for Moving a Database
• Designing for Database Movability
• How Developers Can Avoid Transact-SQL Cursors
• Scaling Out Database Writes
• SQL Server 2005: Scaling Up and Out
• Snapshot Isolation in SQL Server 2005 "Yukon"
• SQL Server 2000 Replication 101: Terminology, Types, and Configuration
• Handling SQL Server Errors in Nested Procedures
• Scripting SQL Server 2000 Indexes
• SQL Server 2000 Replication 101: Replication Agents
• Testing SQL Server 2000: Testing Database Options
• Testing SQL Server 2000: Inspecting Configuration Information
• SNAPSHOT Isolation in SQL Server 2005, Part II
• Resolving Deadlocks in SQL Server 2000
• Securing Your SQL Server

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