SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries (Late November 2009)
Here is the latest version of my Diagnostic Information Queries for SQL Server 2008. Running these queries will give you...
2009-11-24
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Glenn Berry
Some Intel Westmere Benchmarks
PCLab.pl has an interesting review and benchmarks of a 3.07GHz Westmere-EP processor (which is the six-core, 32nm successor to the...
2009-11-23
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Some Ways To Look For Things in SQL Server Modules
If you have a medium to large database in SQL Server, with lots of stored procedures, functions or views, it...
2009-11-23
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PDC 2009 Laptop Giveaway
During Steven Sinofsky’s keynote address at PDC09 today, he started telling a story about how some of the engineers in...
2009-11-19
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Impressions of PDC09 Day One
Back before I grew up and became a DBA, I used to be a developer. This seems to be a...
2009-11-18
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Cumulative Update 5 For SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1
Microsoft has released Cumulative Update 5 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1. You can go here to request the...
2009-11-17
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SQL Server 2008 iFTS Lessons Learned
We have been using SQL Server 2008 Integrated Full Text Search (iFTS) in Production at NewsGator for a little over...
2009-11-17
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SQL Server MVP Deep Dives Book Signing At PASS Summit
Kimberly Trippposted today about the SQL Server MVP Deep Dives book signing event at PASS on November 4. The PASS...
2009-11-17
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Using Dedicated NICs to Segregate SQL Server 2008 Backup Traffic
If you need to initialize a mirrored database for SQL Server 2008 Database Mirroring, one of the first things you...
2009-11-14
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SQL Server 2008 Database Mirroring in Action
I have been pretty busy with a server consolidation and move project at work. We had four Dell PowerEdge 6800...
2009-11-13
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Blogs
Learn Better: Pause to Review More
By Brian Kelley
If you want to learn better, pause more in your learning to intentionally review.
Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-Gen: Bring on the IOPS
By John
If you’ve used Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose, you know the drill: to...
SQL, MDX, DAX – the languages of data
By DataOnWheels
Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have...
Forums
Two foreign keys to the same table. Can't cascade deletes.
Not sure if this is really a relational theory question but it seems about...
Connecting Power BI to SSAS and effective user not working
Hi everyone, Below is a consolidated summary of what we validated Architecture & data...
High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?
Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...
Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers