SQL Server 2012 FileTable – Part 1
In a series of blog posts we will have a look at the new SQL Server 2012 table type called...
2012-01-06 (first published: 2012-01-03)
4,918 reads
Danish Developer Conference – DDC 2012
I am proud to announce that we at Geniiius will be speaking at DDC 2012. DDC 2012 is a one...
2011-12-29
1,676 reads
SQL Server 2012 – new conversion functions
With SQL Server 2012 comes a new set of conversion functions, that will certainly help doing type casts and conversions...
2011-12-20
1,187 reads
SQL server 2012 Startup parameters
I’m sure that I’m not the only one with nightmares about the startup parameters in older versions of SQL Server...
2011-12-06
1,169 reads
CONCAT() – SQL Server 2012
With SQL Server 2012 a new string function is born – CONCAT(). The output is a string, as the result of...
2011-11-29
1,066 reads
SQL Server trace flags
Normally I’m not a big fan of using traceflags, my advice is only to use these when it is absolutely...
2011-11-22
2,345 reads
SQL Server ® 2012 Release Candidate (RC0)
Finally it is here, the SQL Server 2012 RC0 is ready for download, click this link and you’ll be downloading...
2011-11-18
755 reads
SQL Server 2012 licensing
Microsoft has recently released the licensing overview for SQL Server 2012. A few things has changes from SQL Server 2008,...
2011-11-14
947 reads
How much space are you wasting?
A few weeks back a client of mine asked me to write a script that could tell him the space...
2011-11-08
853 reads
Backup/restore/checkdb/shrinkfile progress
Have you ever wonderet how long you need to wait for a backup or restore command to complete? If you...
2011-11-01
1,106 reads
Blogs
Creating a Striped Backup Set with AI
By Steve Jones
I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s...
Trace Flag 1448 – Lessons from a Technical Interview
By gbargsley
In SQL Server environments where transactional replication runs alongside Always On Availability Groups (AGs),...
Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)
Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)If you run SQL Server...
Forums
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...
SQLPS and syspolicy_purge_history job
The SQLPS.exe file has gone AWOL on 2 of my 4 SQL servers, ie,...
Be Wary of Data
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Be Wary of Data
Question of the Day
Locking Hierarchies
You have a table [dbo].[orders] without a Clustered Index (Heap). The table does not have any other nonclustered indexes! You rund the following command in Read Committed Isolation Level:
SELECTo_orderdate,
o_orderkey,
o_custkey,
o_storekey
FROMdbo.orders
WHEREo_orderkey = 3877;