Live Streaming Keynotes From PASS Summit 2010
I just wanted to help spread the word that the PASS Summit Keynotes will be streamed live via LiveMeeting next...
2010-11-05
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Glenn Berry
Dr. DMV Queries From Fall 2010 SQLConnections Conference
This is the SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 version of the DMV Diagnostic Information Queries that I did for my Dr....
2010-11-04
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Speaking at SQL Server Connections in Las Vegas Next Week
I will be giving two presentations next week at the SQL Server Connections conference in Las Vegas. There is a...
2010-10-31
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Adding Data Compression to an Existing Clustered Index in SQL Server 2008 R2
Working at an ISV like NewsGator Technologies, I get to work on products like Social Sites for SharePoint 2010, that...
2010-10-28
2,570 reads
New Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 R2
Late Monday night (October 18, 2010), Microsoft released the latest Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2005 and for SQL Server...
2010-10-20
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This is What Task Manager Looks Like When You Restart the SQL Server Service
This is what Task Manager looks like in Windows Server 2008 R2 when you restart the SQL Server Service. This...
2010-10-19
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Birds of a Feather Lunch at PASS 2010 Summit
The volunteers at PASS (especially Mike Walsh) have organized another “Birds of a Feather” lunch event on Tuesday, November 9...
2010-10-13
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What are Physical Sockets, Physical Cores, and Logical Cores and Why Does it matter?
I witnessed a confused conversation on Twitter today where someone was talking about how he uses the terms sockets and...
2010-10-09
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SQL Server Memory Related Queries
What is using all of my memory in SQL Server? If you ever believe that you are seeing signs of...
2010-10-08
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CPU-Z Support For Sandy Bridge Processors
The CPUID website has a screenshot of CPU-Z 1.55.2, showing its support for the upcoming 32nm Sandy Bridge processor, which...
2010-10-04
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Blogs
Creating a Striped Backup Set with AI
By Steve Jones
I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s...
Trace Flag 1448 – Lessons from a Technical Interview
By gbargsley
In SQL Server environments where transactional replication runs alongside Always On Availability Groups (AGs),...
Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)
Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)If you run SQL Server...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
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SQLPS and syspolicy_purge_history job
The SQLPS.exe file has gone AWOL on 2 of my 4 SQL servers, ie,...
Be Wary of Data
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Question of the Day
Locking Hierarchies
You have a table [dbo].[orders] without a Clustered Index (Heap). The table does not have any other nonclustered indexes! You rund the following command in Read Committed Isolation Level:
SELECTo_orderdate,
o_orderkey,
o_custkey,
o_storekey
FROMdbo.orders
WHEREo_orderkey = 3877;