SQL Server Sample Databases - All Versions
Many of you DBAs DB Devs and BI Devs in these days can have some changes from one SQL Server...
2011-12-22
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Blog Posts
The #Meme15 Round-Up
The first round of #meme15 has finished. In total, there were eighteen people that participated. If there were more, I...
2011-12-22
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ETL from Oracle to SQL Server
I was recently asked to provide some performance tuning recommendations for an ETL process that extracts data from Oracle using...
2011-12-21
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Explaining SQLSaturday
I wrote a while back about my coffee cup from SQLSaturday #100. I took it to work (where I usually...
2011-12-21
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Filtering in SSMS
Do you spend seconds, maybe even minutes trying to find things in SSMS? Ever find yourself scrolling up and down...
2011-12-21
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Filtering in SSMS
Do you spend seconds, maybe even minutes trying to find things in SSMS? Ever find yourself scrolling up and down thrown the tree trying to find that one specific...
2011-12-21
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Routing OSPF and Network Team
After a server move to the failover Data Centre – a file copy between the two sites slowed down by 6x. ...
2011-12-21
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SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): AlwaysOn
AlwaysOn is a new integrated high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solution that provides redundancy within a datacenter and across datacenters...
2011-12-21
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VirtualBox – Cannot Register the Hard Drive Because a Hard Drive with UUID Already Exists
Virtualization is awesome! It really helps when you are a developer. On my laptop I don’t even have SQL Server...
2011-12-21
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2011 PASS Board Elections Notes
As I write this the final hours for the 2011 PASS Board of Directors elections are ticking away. Before the...
2011-12-20
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Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Downtime Caused by the Postgres...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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