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...

TempDB Destroyer

One of my previous posts, I covered how to create a really big database with just garbage data in it....

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...

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...

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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...

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...

PASSMN Presentation Materials

Last week, I presented on extended events at the Minnesota SQL Server user group (PASSMN).  The turnout was quite excellent...

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...

SQL Server – Skipping Function Execution when parameters are NULL

You can avoid executing a function when NULL values are passed as parameters. To achieve this you need to create...