A Tale of Four Laptops
With the release of the 22nm Ivy Bridge microarchitecture less than three weeks away, at the end of April 2012,...
2019-04-02 (first published: 2012-04-10)
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Glenn Berry
Choosing a Mobile Workstation
I get a lot of e-mail and Twitter requests for advice about what laptop someone should buy. I don’t mind...
2019-04-02 (first published: 2012-08-11)
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Selecting an Appropriate Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 Family Processor for SQL Server 2012
Intel has finally released the 22nm Xeon E5-2600 v2 Family (Ivy Bridge-EP) of processors that will be used in two-socket...
2019-04-02 (first published: 2013-09-18)
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SQL Server 2005 Diagnostic Information Queries (May 2012)
Even though SQL Server 2005 fell out of Mainstream Support back in April of 2011, I know many people are...
2019-04-02 (first published: 2012-05-04)
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SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries (June 2012)
Here is the latest version of my SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries, with some minor tweaks and improvements, including...
2019-04-02 (first published: 2012-06-11)
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SQL Server 2012 Diagnostic Information Queries (December 2011)
Since the final RTM release of SQL Server is getting ever closer, I thought it was a good time to...
2019-04-02 (first published: 2011-12-19)
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SQL Server Database Mirroring Tips and Tricks, Part 1
Even though SQL Server Database Mirroring is deprecated in SQL Server 2012, it is still a very useful HA/DR technique...
2019-04-02 (first published: 2012-03-12)
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SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for April 2014
I made some small improvements to a few of the queries this month. I plan to add several more SQL...
2019-04-02 (first published: 2014-04-18)
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SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for August 2013
I have gone through and made some minor updates and bug fixes for all of my SQL Server Diagnostic Information...
2019-04-02 (first published: 2013-08-09)
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Vote on Connect Items for SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 and 2012 Service Packs
As we get closer to the end of mainstream support for both SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2...
2019-04-02 (first published: 2014-01-27)
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Blogs
Daily Coping 11 Aug 2022
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
Using DBCC CLONEDATABASE to create a schema only copy of your database.
DBCC CLONEDATABASE is one of those features that I don’t use often but it’s...
VS Live Microsoft HQ Slides and Code
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone that attended my sessions today at VS Live. I have my...
Forums
SSIS Running From SQL Job Fails - Most Of The Time
I have three SSIS packages created in Visual Studio 2019, going against a SQL...
Grand total of the sum of a field taking another field
Hello everyone, I am trying to calculate the field called "Load weight". The calculation...
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