SQL Server Database Mirroring (Not Dead Yet)
SQL Server Database Mirroring is a high availability and disaster recovery feature that was added to the product with SQL...
2012-03-07
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Glenn Berry
CPU-Z 1.60 Released
Pretty much right on schedule, Frank Delattre has released CPU-Z 1.60, which has support for some new and upcoming processors...
2012-03-04
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What I Want For My Birthday
Dell has teased us with some images of their upcoming 12th Generation servers (that will support the Intel Sandy Bridge-EP...
2012-02-29
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SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 Diagnostic Queries for March 2012
Since it is nearly March, I will go ahead and jump the gun by a few days and post an...
2012-02-28
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New Cumulative Updates For SQL Server 2008 R2
On Feb 22, 2012, Microsoft released SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Cumulative Update 5, which is Build 10.50.2806. This CU...
2012-02-24
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Behemoth of the Server Room?
Back during the PASS 2011 Summit in Seattle, I was interviewed by Tony Davis, Andrew Clark, and Rodney Landrum about...
2012-02-10
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Behemoths of the server room: An interview with Glenn Berry
At the last PASS summit, we cornered SQL Server MVP Glenn Berry, and found out his views on the impact of virtualization, solid state disks and SAN administrators on the life of a DBA, and what led him to write a book all about SQL Server Hardware.
2012-02-10
1,803 reads
Building or Buying a Desktop Based Development and Test Database Server
Back in April of 2011, I wrote a post that compared the merits of using an ancient, but actual rack...
2012-02-06
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AMD 2012-2013 Server Roadmap
AMD had their 2012 Financial Analyst Day today, which is basically a dog and pony show for stock analysts.
Previously,...
2012-02-03
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January 2012 SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 Diagnostic Information Queries
Since Microsoft recently released a couple of new Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2008, I thought it was finally time...
2012-01-23
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Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
Forums
SSRS Reminded Me of the Time Microsoft Retired TMG
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SSRS Reminded Me of the...
Getting results from a Procedure to join to a query
I have a need to execute a stored procedure and return the results to...
Upgrade 2016 Standard to 2022 Express
Title pretty much says it all - can this be done? I've tried several...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT II
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37 4 NULLWhat is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 4;See possible answers