SQL Server Index Tuning for Mere Mortals
One of the most important things to measure, monitor, and “get right” for good overall SQL Server OLTP performance is...
2011-01-07
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Glenn Berry
Microsoft DreamSpark for Students
If you are a college or high school student, you can get a very valuable assortment of free software from...
2011-01-04
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Lots of Intel Sandy Bridge News Today
Intel has lifted the embargo today on 32nm Intel Sandy Bridge benchmarking, so there is a lot of good information...
2011-01-03
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TPC-E Benchmark Analysis by CPU Type
As an experiment, I decided to import the current official TPC-E results spreadsheet into a SQL Server 2008 R2 database,...
2011-01-01
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The Importance of Windows Power Plans for Server Performance
This is a subject I have written about a couple of times before, here and in much more depth here. ...
2010-12-29
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Updated SQL 2005 and 2008 Diagnostic Queries
Since it is almost January 2011, I thought I would post the January 2011 versions of the SQL Server 2005...
2010-12-29
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SQL Server Workload Types and Hardware Selection
There are two primary relational workload types that SQL Server commonly has to deal with, the first being Online Transaction...
2010-12-28
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A Collection of Good Information About Controlling VLFs in SQL Server
Because of the default settings in SQL Server (for the model database), and a lack of understanding about how the...
2010-12-27
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Intel Sandy Bridge Processor Machines Coming Soon!
If you are in the market to buy or build a new laptop or desktop computer, you might want to...
2010-12-22
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SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update 13 Released
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update 13, which is Build 4315. It was actually released on Monday,...
2010-12-22
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Blogs
Data Viz in Fabric Notebooks
Lots of people have created Power BI reports, using interactive data visualizations to explore...
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...
Forums
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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