SQL Server Hardware Choices Made Easy
Redgate has released a free eBook that I wrote called SQL Server Hardware Choices Made Easy. This is basically a...
2011-08-29
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Glenn Berry
New Dell Precision M4600 Mobile Workstation
After a very long wait, I finally received my new company laptop this past week, which is a very fast...
2011-08-28
1,861 reads
A Couple of Data Compression Tricks in SQL Server 2008
As I have said several times before, I am a big fan of data compression in SQL Server 2008 and...
2011-08-23
1,923 reads
SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update 9
Microsoft has released Cumulative Update 9 for SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM, which is Build 10.50.1804.0. I count 26 fixes...
2011-08-19
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SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Cumulative Update 2
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Cumulative Update 2, which is Build 10.50.2772.0. I count 14 fixes in...
2011-08-16
1,511 reads
Gradually Deleting Data in SQL Server
If you have a situation where you have a very large table in SQL Server, where you need to periodically...
2011-08-13
1,614 reads
Configuring, Benchmarking and Validating an I/O Subsystem for SQL Server, Part 1
One of the main projects I have been working on lately is designing and implementing a completely new data and...
2011-08-12
1,848 reads
Microsoft SQL Server Denali CTP 3 Product Guide
Microsoft has released a Product Guide for SQL Server Denali CTP3, which has datasheets, white papers, technical presentations, demonstrations, and...
2011-08-12
1,258 reads
Corsair 16GB Flash Voyager GT USB 3.0 Review
I bought a little Corsair Flash Voyager USB 3.0 16GB USB Flash Drive at Micro Center yesterday, since most of...
2011-08-11
2,205 reads
Two New TPC-E Submissions
Two new TPC-E OLTP Benchmark Submissions have shown up in the last month or so since I last recapped three...
2011-08-05
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Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
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...
Forums
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
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
Comments posted to this topic are about the item When SQL Server Central Went...
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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