Dell 12th Generation Server Cheat Sheet

Over the past several months, Dell has been rolling out a number of new 12th generation servers that all use...

Denali – Day 16: Tool: Database Recovery Advisor –SSMS tool

Denali – Day 16: Tool: Database Recovery Advisor –SSMS tool

As blogged on “Denali – Day 11: SSMS enhancement” about Features added on...

Don’t You Know Who I Am?

I’m happy to say that for most of you out there, the answer to this question is “no.” That’s as...

MAGICPASS Tonight It’s All About Encryption

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Tonight I will be live in front of my home town crew at MagicPASS, lead by the one and only...

Quick tip: sp_configure and sys.configurations

In order to query the configuration settings of a server you can run this sproc:
exec sp_configureOn a default install of...

Suggestion: “USE” keyword with Linked Servers

Using special functions for querying and executing commands at linked servers is not very convenient, and sometimes even very problematic.

For...

Upgrading Packages to SSIS 2012

Many of you may now or in the future have the need to upgrade your SSIS packages to the new...

Ad hoc query optimization in SQL Server

When ad hoc queries are executed in sql server, if it is executed without parameters, and it is simple,  SQL...

Another Way To Insert Many Rows Very Fast From Your .NET Application

There was a great deal of feedback to my previous post One Way To Insert Many Rows Very Fast From...

Backup compression using IBM TDP for SQL Server

If you are using SQL Server 2008 enterprise/datacenter edition, or SQL Server 2008 R2 standard or above, you are in...