A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 8
For Day 8 of my SQL Server hardware series, I want to give my current recommended Intel Processor List for...
2011-04-08
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Glenn Berry
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 7
For Day 7 of this series, I will talk about the incredibly useful CPU-Z utility, which is available for free...
2011-04-07
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Presenting Dr. DMV by Live Meeting on April 19 at 12PM CDT
I will be presenting my Dr. DMV presentation for the St. Louis SQL Server User’s Group on April 19. Here...
2011-04-07
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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 6
For Day 6 of this series, I am going to talk about a few useful tools you can use to...
2011-04-06
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Getting More Hardware Information from SQL Server Denali DMV Queries
As I recently discussed, I often hear from database professionals who are not allowed to access their database servers directly....
2011-04-06
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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 5
For Day 5, I will be covering a few tools that can be used for hardware identification. Since quite a...
2011-04-05
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Adding a processor_description column to sys.dm_os_sys_info in SQL Server Denali
I opened a new Connect Item today, asking Microsoft to add a new column to the sys.dm_os_sys_info DMV in SQL...
2011-04-05
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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 4
Day 4 of this series is about the upcoming AMD “Bulldozer” family of processors that is due to be released...
2011-04-04
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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 3
Lest anyone accuse me of ignoring AMD in this series, I will talk about the AMD Opteron 6100 series processors...
2011-04-03
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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 1
Well, I apparently did not learn my lesson last year, when I did a month long series called “A DMV...
2011-04-02
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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