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
The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
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I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
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When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
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Making Data AI-Ready, Part 3 (This is the final article in a three-part series...
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SQL Server 2025 section missing?
Hello, the title says it all. Is the SQL Server 2025 section missing?
A design question in a parent child relationship
I am not sure which is the best way to proceed. I have parent...
Hyperscale Replicas III
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Hyperscale Replicas III
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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