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
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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
Build a Snapshot Backup Catalog in Pure Storage - The SQL Server 2022 Edition
In my previous post, I showed you how to build a snapshot backup catalog...
Advice I Like: Training Employees
By Steve Jones
Train employees well enough that they could get another job but treat them well...
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...
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...
Why Data Modelling Still Matters - More Than Ever
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hops from sql server to mysql to s4 hana - possible?
Hi when i think of server hops , i think of how kerberos assists...
Question of the Day
Strange String Splits
When I run this code, how many rows are returned?
DECLARE @meals NVARCHAR(1000) = N'夕食昼食朝食' DECLARE @s NVARCHAR(1) = N'食' SELECT value FROM STRING_SPLIT(@meals, @s) GOSee possible answers