Cumulative Update # 8 for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 is now available!
The 8th cumulative update (CU8) for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 is now available for download at the Microsoft...
2014-01-22
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Basit Aalishan Masood-Al-Farooq
Get SQL Server Physical Cores, Physical and Virtual CPUs, and Processor type information using Transact-SQL (T-SQL) script
Today, I received email from one of my blog follower asking if there is any DMV or SQL script, which...
2014-01-22
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Monitor availability groups and availability replicas status information using T-SQL
Just a quick blog post to share a query, which I wrote to monitor availability groups and replicas and the...
2014-01-20
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SQL Server monitoring and optimization
To optimize the performance of your database, you need to monitor and tune. You determine the performance baseline, how SQL...
2013-12-18
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Nine T-SQL best practices
SQL Server databases are the backbone of many enterprise applications, and good Transact-SQL (T-SQL) code is the best way to...
2013-12-16
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Bulk Transfers: Some guidelines
Bulk transfers are a common way of importing large amounts of data into, or exporting large amounts of data out...
2013-12-14
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How to work around Azure database migration limitations
Microsoft Windows Azure SQL Database, commonly known as SQL Azure, is a relational database in the cloud that is part...
2013-12-14
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Possible ways to secure SSIS Packages
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) security is based around several layers that provide a rich and flexible security environment. These...
2013-12-14
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SQL Server Encryption Options
Many database servers store confidential data, which must be protected from unauthorized access when it’s transmitted across the network and...
2013-12-14
674 reads
Understanding SQL Server Query Optimization – Part 2
An execution plan is the sequence of operations SQL Server query optimizer performs to run the statements. The SQL Server...
2013-12-14
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Blogs
Seeing the Bigger Picture: How A Monitoring Tool Changed My Approach to Estate Management
By Chris Yates
When it comes to managing complex database environments, having the right monitoring solution is...
A New Word: Foilsick
By Steve Jones
foilsick – adj. feeling ashamed after revealing a little too much of yourself to...
Accelerated Database Recovery for tempdb in SQL Server 2025
Accelerated database recovery was introduced in SQL Server 2019 and provides fast recovery, instantaneous...
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Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...
count the number of NULLs in a row
Hi everyone I have a SP that finds the average based on 3 tables. ...
Deleting data in large table
I have a large table with 17M+ rows for our package record audits. I've...