Presenting Hardware 301 at 24 Hours of PASS on September 7
PASS just announced today the next occurrence of 24 Hours of PASS (24HOP), which is called the Summit Preview version....
2011-08-03
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Glenn Berry
August 2011 SQL Server 2008 Instance Level Diagnostic Queries
Since it is August 1, 2011 (which is also my birthday), I thought it would be a good time to...
2011-08-01
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SQL Server Hardware Book News and Reviews
Today was an exciting day, since I discovered that fellow SQL Server MVP Brent Ozar (Blog|Twitter) had posted a very...
2011-07-29
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Some Common Disk Drives Compared
Since I talked about how wonderful the newer Western Digital Black 6Gbps SATA III hard drives are a couple of...
2011-07-27
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Leaked Information About AMD Opteron 6200 Series Processors
CPU World has a post about some leaked info regarding the upcoming Opteron 6200 series “Bulldozer” processor line. Here are...
2011-07-26
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Building or Buying a High Performance, Low Cost Desktop Machine for SQL Server Development and Testing
There was a lengthy discussion on Twitter this morning, where one of my friends, Grant Fritchey (Twitter) was asking the...
2011-07-24
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP2 Cumulative Update 5 Released
Microsoft has released Cumulative Update 5 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2. This CU has ten fixes listed in...
2011-07-18
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SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Released
Microsoft has finally (after releasing the CTP version way back in April) released the final, gold build of SQL Server...
2011-07-12
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Teaching Transact-SQL at University of Denver, University College
Starting this week on Wednesday night, I will be teaching a special five-week condensed version of ICT 4462, Transact-SQL Programming...
2011-07-12
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July 2011 Version of SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Queries
Since July is only one day away, its time for the updated version of my SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information...
2011-06-30
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Blogs
T-SQL Snapshot Backups on Availability Group Secondary Replicas
One of my favourite features of SQL Server 2022 was the T-SQL Snapshot Backups....
The Book of Redgate: Hours
By Steve Jones
I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of...
How to Check TDE Progress and Elapsed Time in SQL Server
By SQLPals
How to Check TDE Progress and Elapsed Time in SQL Server ...
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Squared Values
What happens when I run this code in SQL Server 2022?
SELECT SQUARE('12') See possible answers