SQLServer 2008 R2 SP3 released, Now its testing and deployment time!
As promised Microsoft released SQL Server 2008 R2 SP3 last Friday, and now this is your opportunity to test and...
2014-09-29
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Building a Virtual Machine within Azure (IaSS) – Improvements !
Those Dev’s/UX designers out there at Microsoft seems to be pretty busy as they releasing back to back updates to windows...
2014-08-18 (first published: 2014-08-12)
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Microsoft Azure Portal Preview looks promising !
This is one of those posts which is pending for a very long time. I was pretty excited when Azure...
2014-06-26
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Journey of an On-Premises DB to Azure VM – SQL Server 2014 makes it easier!
SQL Server 2014 is deeply integrated with Windows Microsoft Azure and moving an On-prem database to a Microsoft Azure VM...
2014-04-24 (first published: 2014-04-16)
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Data Collector in SQLServer 2014 – What’s New !
Today I noticed couple of changes(Neat changes !) for Data Collector in SQLServer 2014. This post is a detailed walk-through of setting...
2014-04-08 (first published: 2014-04-04)
3,787 reads
SQL Server 2014 Install – Step by Step
Hot cake for the day is SQLServer 2014 RTM bits. Its generally available starting today, and I downloaded a fresh...
2014-04-01
19,245 reads
Folks,Know your Outbound Data Transfer Costs – Windows Azure
The cost associated with Outbound Data Transfer is very important when you consider bridging your On-premise network with Windows Azure.
Yes, when I...
2014-03-25 (first published: 2014-03-19)
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Rollback DBCC CHECKDB REPAIR !
I learned something new today while I was listening to one of the courses on corruption authored by the master,...
2014-02-06
1,567 reads
One error which you don’t want to see while doing upgrades – Missing MSI !
The cached MSI file ‘C:\Windows\Installer\<name>.msi’ is missing !!! This is one error which you don’t want to see when you are...
2014-01-14
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Setting up the Min and Max Memory options on the fly – Word of caution !
Apparently,setting up the Min and Max Memory setting for SQLServer should be definitely encouraged and no server should be left...
2014-01-02
829 reads
Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
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String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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