Database Space Capacity Planning
Describes a process to create a consolidated space forecasting report, which focuses on a "days remaining" metric.
2009-10-13
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Articles
MSDE – Database Size Limit
Most of you are aware that the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE) limits database size to 2 gigabytes. ...
2009-10-13
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SQL Server Tempdb Usage and Bottlenecks tracked with Extended Events
How do I effectively find out if the Tempdb database is suffering from an allocation bottleneck? Should I create multiple TempDB files per core on this server to improve performance? How do I check this information programmatically?
2009-10-13
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Using new location-aware data types in SQL Server 2008
With SQL Server 2008, you will have new built-in support for location based data types and supporting geospatial features. Next you will learn how these new data types work.
2009-10-13
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Weak Passwords Discovered in the 10,000 Disclosed Hotmail/Live.com/MSN leaked accounts
By now, hopefully everyone has heard of the security breach where accounts and passwords were found on a public site listed the account usernames and passwords of some 10,000 users. Initially it was just reported to be Hotmail/Live.com/MSN, but it turns
2009-10-13
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Working at Microsoft
Would you want to work at Microsoft? Do you think Steve Jones does? Read a few thoughts from him on his experience with the software giant.
2009-10-13
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Working at Microsoft
Would you want to work at Microsoft? Do you think Steve Jones does? Read a few thoughts from him on his experience with the software giant.
2009-10-13
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Working at Microsoft
Would you want to work at Microsoft? Do you think Steve Jones does? Read a few thoughts from him on his experience with the software giant.
2009-10-13
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Ask SQLServerCentral
We have expanded our forums with a new Question and Answer site based on the StackOverflow codebase. Please feel free to visit.
2009-10-12 (first published: 2009-10-09)
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Parallel Processing
Satish More brings us a framework that you can use to execute a number of jobs in parallel and finish a task quickly.
2009-10-12
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Blogs
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
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Creating JSON II
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
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