A Tale of Four Laptops
With the release of the 22nm Ivy Bridge microarchitecture less than three weeks away, at the end of April 2012,...
2019-04-02 (first published: 2012-04-10)
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Glenn Berry
Choosing a Mobile Workstation
I get a lot of e-mail and Twitter requests for advice about what laptop someone should buy. I don’t mind...
2019-04-02 (first published: 2012-08-11)
2,261 reads
Selecting an Appropriate Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 Family Processor for SQL Server 2012
Intel has finally released the 22nm Xeon E5-2600 v2 Family (Ivy Bridge-EP) of processors that will be used in two-socket...
2019-04-02 (first published: 2013-09-18)
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SQL Server 2005 Diagnostic Information Queries (May 2012)
Even though SQL Server 2005 fell out of Mainstream Support back in April of 2011, I know many people are...
2019-04-02 (first published: 2012-05-04)
2,362 reads
SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries (June 2012)
Here is the latest version of my SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries, with some minor tweaks and improvements, including...
2019-04-02 (first published: 2012-06-11)
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SQL Server 2012 Diagnostic Information Queries (December 2011)
Since the final RTM release of SQL Server is getting ever closer, I thought it was a good time to...
2019-04-02 (first published: 2011-12-19)
3,640 reads
SQL Server Database Mirroring Tips and Tricks, Part 1
Even though SQL Server Database Mirroring is deprecated in SQL Server 2012, it is still a very useful HA/DR technique...
2019-04-02 (first published: 2012-03-12)
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SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for April 2014
I made some small improvements to a few of the queries this month. I plan to add several more SQL...
2019-04-02 (first published: 2014-04-18)
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SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for August 2013
I have gone through and made some minor updates and bug fixes for all of my SQL Server Diagnostic Information...
2019-04-02 (first published: 2013-08-09)
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Vote on Connect Items for SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 and 2012 Service Packs
As we get closer to the end of mainstream support for both SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2...
2019-04-02 (first published: 2014-01-27)
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Blogs
More fun with Git: git restore
The setup My day job involves babysitting a lot of Git repositories hosted on...
When the Internet Stumbles: Lessons from Cloudflare & Azure Front Door Outages
By John
Recently, the world was reminded of just how fragile the internet can be. Two...
Prepping for Certification, Part 4 of 4
By Brian Kelley
In Parts 1-3, I covered how I prepare for a certification exam. In this...
Forums
Catalog max connection pool size: 100
Seeing this message repeated every 10 seconds in the RSHostingService_yyyy_mm_dd_hh_mm_ss.log file. Can anyone advise:...
CAST datetimeoffset(7) as a datetime in UK format
I have a view where I am casting a datetimeoffset(7) field to smalldatetime or...
what are the downsides of TDE not running vs running?
hi for the 2 years i've been here I believe we've had "encryption" turned...
Question of the Day
Putting the Player with the Number
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
DECLARE @player varchar(20) = 'Bo Nix', @num VARCHAR = '10' SELECT @player || @numSee possible answers