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
567 reads
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
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK Every morning somebody on the team runs the...
A New Word: Mauerbauertraurigkeit
By Steve Jones
mauerbauertraurigkeit – n. inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends whose company...
Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
Forums
iso source of scripts.
While doing some housekeeping I came across a folder containing some scripts that appear...
Why SQL Server Database Attach fails and how to repair it
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Why SQL Server Database Attach...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
What is returned? See possible answers