Oracle Tips for MSBI Devs #2: Keyword compare between Oracle and SQL Server
While attending a recent Windows Azure Quick Start, the presenter, Mike Benkovich (@mbenko) happened to show a table on his...
2012-04-17
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Blog Posts
SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CU6 Released
This morning, Microsoft released SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CU6, which is Build 10.50.2811.0. This Cumulative Update lists 20 fixes...
2012-04-17
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TDS Endpoints: SQL Server’s “Listener”
In the land of Oracle, if you want to prevent user access to your database, you stop the listener. Without...
2012-04-17
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Where Have all the DBAs and DB DEVs Gone?
Last week the SQL community and in particular the blogosphere, was buzzing with interest noise following the Microsoft Learning site...
2012-04-17
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Windows Server 2012
Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President Brad Anderson announced today at the Microsoft Management Summit 2012 in Las Vegas that the next...
2012-04-17
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"Soft Skills" books
In my professional development presentation, I list the "soft skills" books that I have found most helpful in my career to date. You can find...
2012-04-16
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10 must follow blogs that might not be in your list
There are few memes going around in the SQL world. Probably the most popular of them is TSQL Tuesday (#tsql2sday)....
2012-04-16
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Apply SP1 to SQL Server 2008R2 on active/active cluster.
While researching the steps required to service pack SQL Server on an active active cluster I came across a lot...
2012-04-16
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Creating a User without a Login – Contained Databases
In SQL Server 2012, we have a new feature: partially contained databases. In a previous post, I showed how to...
2012-04-16
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How to use Report Builder 3.0
I did a webinar during the 12 days of 2012 on how to use Report Builder 3.0. In this webinar...
2012-04-16
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Blogs
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL The same plan analysis you know from...
A New Word: the Kinder Surprise
By Steve Jones
the kinder surprise – . the point in your early adolescence when you realize...
Crash-Consistent Snapshot Cloning - Hyper-V Edition
If you’ve been following my T-SQL Snapshot Backup series, most of what I’ve covered...
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The Distance Metric
In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?
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