Rules of Holes #3: A Better Shovel is NOT the Answer!
You stopped digging. You looked around and saw that you were still in the Hole. You needed to get out....
2012-11-14
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Blog Posts
SQL Server || Compress & UnComprees Backups in one Media\File
Today, We try to check of SQL server when trying to take Compress & UnCcomprees Backups in one Media\File.
Query No. 1
BACKUP...
2012-11-14
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SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) and SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse
The SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse and SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse are very high end builds of Microsoft’s...
2012-11-14
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SQL Server Virtualisation
SQL Server Virtualisation - Lots of companies and organisations are adopting a virtualisation first approach to the installation of new servers...
2012-11-14
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SQLBits XI recently announced
When I saw an email from SQLBits announcing SQLBits XI in East Midlands in my inbox this morning, it simply...
2012-11-14
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Dell Quickstart Data Warehouse Appliance 2000
As a follow-up to my blog Dell Quickstart Data Warehouse Appliance for SQL Server 2012, Dell announced the availability of the second...
2012-11-13
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Enable Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012
Configuring Hyper-V on a Windows Server 2012 is really simple and straight forward. Its a very similar process on Windows...
2012-11-13 (first published: 2012-11-09)
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Happy Diwali
Wish you all a very happy and blessed festive season. May this festival of lights brings more brightness in your...
2012-11-13
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Happy Diwali………….
Wishing You a Very Happy Diwali…………….
KAHI TIMTIMAHAT HAIN DIYO KI, KAHI SHOR HAAN ATHISBAZI KA
CHAMAK HAAN DIL MAIN, UMEEDO KI...
2012-11-13
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How to obtain the version and license for a Red Gate SQL BACKUP install
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here is a little script I've hobbled together that I use to get version and license info for a Red...
2012-11-13
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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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