On the Sixth Day…
What better way to kick off the sixth day of pre-Christmas than with six slices of foie-gras? No animals have been hurt in the making of this post! This...
2012-12-18
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Blog Posts
SQL Saturday #143 - Washington, DC
Last week, I attended my very first SQL Saturday event in Washington, DC. Although I don't live anywhere near Washington,...
2012-12-18
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SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries (Dec 2012)
Here is the December 2012 version of my SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries, with some minor tweaks and improvements...
2012-12-18
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SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 Cumulative Update 4
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 Cumulative Update 4, which is Build 10.50.4270. I count 34...
2012-12-18
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SQL Server 2012 Cumulative Update 5
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2012 Cumulative Update 5, which is Build 11.0.2395. I count 28 fixes in the public...
2012-12-18
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You Need to Manage Passwords
I saw a note this week from CNet about a system built to crack passwords (also on ArsTechnica). It reminded...
2012-12-18 (first published: 2012-12-12)
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Annual Email Pruning
Like most of us, I get a lot of email. I get subscribed to various services from different ads, events,...
2012-12-17
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Are You a Chessplayer?
I was having a twitter coversation with @dataartisan about chess. He remarked that playing on-line with random folks didn't strike him...
2012-12-17
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CPU Overcommitment and Its Impact on SQL Server Performance on VMware
In the early days of virtualization, the core focus of virtualization was primarily consolidation. You could achieve quite high consolidation...
2012-12-17
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Generating multiple SQL statements from a query
Dynamic SQL is one of my favorite tools in the DBA toolbox. I’m big on automation and dynamic SQL can...
2012-12-17
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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...
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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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