SQL Saturday #177 – Silicon Valley
There is something about the Silicon Valley that attracts the innovative and creative individuals. The “misfits, rebels, troublemakers, and the...
2013-02-20
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Blog Posts
SQL Server 2008 Statistics: What does a DBA need to know?
I’ve been looking into the behaviour of statistics in SQL Server 2008 – so I’d like to present an overview from...
2013-02-20 (first published: 2013-02-14)
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A Month of PowerShell – Day 19 (Databases: Scalar Functions)
Welcome to Day 19 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. This series will use the series landing page on...
2013-02-19
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A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Algorithm 7: Clustering
by Steve Bolton
In last week’s installment of this amateur series of self-tutorials on SQL Server Data Mining (SSDM), we...
2013-02-19 (first published: 2013-02-12)
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Calculate Bitmasks In PowerShell
Have you ever had to calculate bitmasks on the fly? I have and still do. In this post, I’m going to show...
2013-02-19
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Cumulative Update – 11 for SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Is Now Available !
The 11thcumulative update release for SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 is now available for download at the Microsoft...
2013-02-19
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Cumulative Update – 5 for SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 Is Now Available !
The 5th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 is now available for download at the...
2013-02-19
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Cumulative Update – 6 for SQL Server 2012 Is Now Available !
The 6thcumulative update release for SQL Server 2012 is now available. Cumulative Update 6 contains all the hotfixes released since...
2013-02-19
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Keep VMware snapshot growth from wrecking your day
VM snapshots are the best individualization feature since sliced vBread (yeah, I’m a geek). But…have you ever had a VMware snapshot grow...
2013-02-19
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Multitasking A Ridiculous Workload – How I Do It
I don’t! There’s no such thing as multitasking. At least, not how most of us think about it……
Being successful as...
2013-02-19
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Blogs
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
Microsoft Build 2026 announcements
By James Serra
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
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BCP on Linux
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