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)
2,262 reads
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)
5,536 reads
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)
2,363 reads
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)
3,067 reads
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)
3,641 reads
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)
6,566 reads
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)
4,342 reads
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)
3,604 reads
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
SQL, MDX, DAX – the languages of data
By DataOnWheels
Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have...
Setting PK Names in Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
A customer was testing Redgate Data Modeler and complained that it auto-generated PK names....
Flyway Tips: AI Deployment Script Descriptions
By Steve Jones
With the AI push being everywhere, Redgate is no exception. We’ve been getting requests,...
Forums
Connecting Power BI to SSAS and effective user not working
Hi everyone, Below is a consolidated summary of what we validated Architecture & data...
High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?
Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...
Semantic Search in SQL Server 2025
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Semantic Search in SQL Server...
Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers