Introduction to Hekaton Part One: MVCC
Hello folks, welcome to a post focusing on one of the future features of SQL Server. SQL Server 2012 is barely a year old, yet there is already talk...
2012-12-30
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Blog Posts
SQL Server 2012 Standard Edition Licensing Limits
As you might be aware, SQL Server 2012 Standard Edition has some hardware-related licensing limits that I think should be...
2012-12-29
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TempDB Destroyer
One of my previous posts, I covered how to create a really big database with just garbage data in it....
2012-12-29
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Test Hadoop cluster on vmware
SQL Server MVP Jeremiah Peschka posted 2 articles about Hadoop, which makes me be interested on the nosql skill.
I don't have much knowledge...
2012-12-29
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Closing the Results Window in SSMS
This is a guest post by David Postlethwaite.
I’ve been wondering how to do this for years. At SQL Bits and...
2012-12-28
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2012-12-28
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Index Analysis Post Christmas Update
Last week I mentioned that I had put up a few new versions of my index analysis script. Turns out...
2012-12-28
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My RSS Reader…The Great Clean Up
If you blog and call yourself a blogger then you probably have a pretty full RSS reader. Mine has been...
2012-12-28
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PASSMN Presentation Materials
Last week, I presented on extended events at the Minnesota SQL Server user group (PASSMN). The turnout was quite excellent...
2012-12-28
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Reblog: December 21 to December 27
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2012-12-28
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Blogs
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
Forums
query to track time spent on individual tasks in SSIS
Hi everyone I am looking at building a query to determine how much time...
SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database
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Hidden Heroes
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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