New and Improved DMVs in SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1
With relatively little fanfare, Microsoft added a few new DMVs into the SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 release, which came...
2011-10-10
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Glenn Berry
Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008 SP3 RTM
Microsoft has released the final, RTM version of SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3. This is build 10.00.5500. It includes...
2011-10-07
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September 2011 SQL Server 2008 Instance Level Diagnostic Queries
Since it is late September, I thought it would be a good time to release an updated set of Diagnostic...
2011-09-27
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SQL Server MVP Deep Dives, Volume 2 Available at PASS 2011 Summit
Volume 2 of the SQL Server MVP Deep Dives book is now available for pre-order from Amazon and from Manning....
2011-09-24
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September 2011 SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Queries
Its been a couple of months since I have released an updated version of my SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information...
2011-09-21
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Microsoft Releases Two Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2008
Sticking to their eight week release cycle, Microsoft has released two different Cumulative Updates (CU) for SQL Server 2008. The...
2011-09-20
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Slides For My 24 Hours of PASS Session
The slide deck for my session Hardware 301: Diving Deeper into Database Hardware is available here. There are still twelve...
2011-09-07
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24 Hours of PASS on September 7
Just in case you forgot, I wanted to remind everyone that the free, 24 Hours of PASS online event starts...
2011-09-06
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OT: Rant About Mail-in Rebates For Computer Hardware
As you may know from reading my blog, I buy quite a bit of computer hardware components from places like...
2011-09-04
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Geekbench 2.2 Released
Primate Labs has released Geekbench 2.2.0, which is a free upgrade for Geekbench 2.1.x users. The release notes are here.
Here...
2011-09-01
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Blogs
App-Consistent MongoDB Snapshots Across Multiple Pure Storage FlashArrays
Introduction When you’re running MongoDB at scale with data distributed across multiple Pure Storage...
PASS: Quantum Computing Slides
By Brian Kelley
If you're an attendee at the PASS Data Community Summit this year, there are...
A New Word: Dead Reckoning
By Steve Jones
dead reckoning– v. intr. finding yourself bothered by somebody’s death more than you would...
Forums
Filtered Indexes: The Developer’s Secret Weapon in SQL Server
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Is Data Modeling Common?
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Getting The Database Name
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Question of the Day
Getting The Database Name
I run this code to connect to SQL Server 2022 from the command line.
sqlcmd -S localhost -EAt the command line, I run these two commands:
SELECT ORIGINAL_DB_NAME() GOWhat is returned? See possible answers