New HP Envy 15 Laptop
After quite a bit of research, I pulled the trigger on a new HP Envy 15 system last Saturday. This...
2009-11-12
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Glenn Berry
Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode on Windows 7
One feature of Windows 7 that you may not have heard of is Windows XP Mode on Windows Virtual PC....
2009-11-12
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SQL Server 2005 Diagnostic Information Queries
Here is an updated version of my diagnostic information queries for SQL Server 2005. You can get the SQL Server...
2009-11-09
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2009-11-09
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SQL Server Wait Type Repository
Microsoft’s Bob Ward has a good post up on the CSS SQL Server Engineers blog about an upcoming web page...
2009-11-08
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Worldwide Operating System Market Share for October 2009
Ars Technica has a good post up showing that Windows 7, (which has been out for two weeks) has already...
2009-11-07
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New Pricing and Editions For SQL Server 2008 R2
Mary-Jo Foley recently posted about some announcements about SQL Server 2008 R2 out of the PASS Summit. There will be...
2009-11-05
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SQL Server 2008 R2 Running on “Big Iron”
During the opening keynote on Tuesday at the PASS Summit in Seattle, Microsoft’s Bob Muglia showed a demonstration of a...
2009-11-05
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Day 1 At SQL PASS in Seattle
Today was my big, somewhat stressful day at the PASS summit in Seattle. I gave two, 75-minute Community session presentations,...
2009-11-04
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SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries
Here is the script that I used in my Dr. DMV presentation this afternoon at PASS. It is a set...
2009-11-04
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Blogs
“We love to debate minutiae”
By Brian Kelley
I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...
Advice I Like: Knots
By Steve Jones
Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
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Windows logins for users migrated from DomainA to DomainB
Hi, I have a SQL Server instance where users connect to via Windows Authentication,...
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Question of the Day
Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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