Microsoft announces that it will no longer support SQL Server and that SQL 2014 was an April Fools Joke!
Microsoft has announced that SQL 2014 was in fact an elaborate April Fool’s joke and that Microsoft intends to move...
2014-04-01
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Blog Posts
New Backup Behavior in SQL 2014
As has been well publicized, today is the official Release To Manufacturing date for SQL Server 2014. You can read...
2014-04-01
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New Backup Behavior in SQL 2014
As has been well publicized, today is the official Release To Manufacturing date for SQL Server 2014. You can read more about all of that here. Something that hasn’t...
2014-04-01
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New Undocumented Feature in SQL Server 2014
Today is the eagerly anticipated launch of SQL Server 2014, I have downloaded and installed a copy of the RTM...
2014-04-01
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Oracle, MySQL, and MongoDB Come to SQLServerCentral
We’re in for a name change. As of May 1, we’ll be welcoming the Oracle and MySQL communities to SQLServerCentral....
2014-04-01
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Solid State Tapes–Prelaunch News!
Note: Sorry for the vague details on the tech part, you’ll get all of that tomorrow – this is what I...
2014-04-01
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SQL Saturday Lisbon
It’s a little over a week until this year’s SQL Saturday festivities kick off in Lisbon, Portugal, and I’m very...
2014-04-01
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SQL Saturday Madison – Recap
A few notes from our trip to Madison for SQL Saturday. We arrived two days early and acted like tourist...
2014-04-01
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SQL Server 2014 Install – Step by Step
Hot cake for the day is SQLServer 2014 RTM bits. Its generally available starting today, and I downloaded a fresh...
2014-04-01
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SQL Server 2014 New Defaults
Today, April 1st, 2014, marks the release of SQL Server 2014. There are tons and tons of great new methods...
2014-04-01
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Blogs
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
My Social Media Rules
By Brian Kelley
I developed these rules a while back, before COVID. I had a period of...
Why Use TRY_PARSE(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Someone asked why I would use TRY_PARSE after I posted a question at SQL...
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