Hotfix for SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 Periodically Does Not Accept Connections Bug
Microsoft has released a hotfix for a very frustrating issue that plagued me for a couple of years at NewsGator. ...
2011-11-26
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Glenn Berry
Speaking at Spring 2012 SQL Server Connections in Las Vegas
I am going to be one of the speakers at the Spring 2012 SQL Server Connections Conference in Las Vegas,...
2011-11-23
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SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Cumulative Update 7 Released
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Cumulative Update 7, which is Build 10.00.4323.00. I count 18 fixes...
2011-11-22
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SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 Cumulative Update 2 Released
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 Cumulative Update 2, which is Build 10.00.5768.00. I count only 3...
2011-11-22
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Tuesday Hardware Tidbits, Nov 15, 2011
A couple of interesting developments this week. First, Intel has officially released (and lifted the embargo) on their new high-end,...
2011-11-15
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OT: Amateur Astronomy
Back in 1997, when the Mars Pathfinder bounced down on Mars on July 4, releasing the little Sojourner rover to...
2011-11-12
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SQL Server 2012 Licensing and Hardware Considerations
Last week, Microsoft announced some pretty fundamental changes in how SQL Server 2012 will be licensed compared to previous versions...
2011-11-11
5,546 reads
Eighty Logical Cores of Goodness!
I recently had the opportunity to specify the purchase of a couple of Dell PowerEdge R810 2U servers that will...
2011-11-09
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Tuesday Hardware Tidbits
There have been a few interesting developments on the hardware front over the past week that I want to cover...
2011-10-25
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Don’t Economize on Processors for Database Servers
In this guest editorial, Glenn Berry argues that, when designing your servers, you need to budget for processing power as your primary concern.
2011-10-24
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Blogs
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
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Why the following cmds in sequence do not work
I need to delete rows from both the temporal main and history tables. The...
When SQL Server Central Went Down
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The String Distance I
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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