System Reserved Partition and monitoring
On Windows 2008 R2 , a System Reserved Partition is created. It is 100 MB and acts as a preparatory step...
2011-12-02
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Blog Posts
With A Little Bit of Care, You Can Use the DMVs to Auto-Create Some Missing Indexes, Here Is How (but with Caveats)
An Automagic Index Creation Script? No, but a start to deal with Missing IndexesHere's the useful join from a number...
2011-12-02
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Workarounds for SSRS 2008 Font rendering issue
Problem
A report developed using SSRS 2008 either through Visual Studio 2010 or BIDS 2008 does not renders properly when viewed...
2011-12-02
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Database Mirroring In A Windows Workgroup
Database Mirroring is a popular high availability solution and low-cost alternative to clustering, especially for smaller shops who can't afford...
2011-12-01
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DBA in Space: Behind the Scenes—Question 9
This is a continuation of my DBA in Space journal.
Episode nine was filmed in the “Mars” exhibit. In this scene,...
2011-12-01
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December Question: When reflecting on this year, what has gone well, and what would you do differently?
December is the last month of the year, and is often a good time to reflect on the past year...
2011-12-01
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PASS Update #67
It’s been a slow few weeks since my last update. This week I did a call with Karla and Wes...
2011-12-01
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PASS Update #67 (Election)
Today the slate of candidates for the 2012-2013 term was announced;
Adam Jorgensen, Denise McInerney, Geoff Hiten, Kendal Van Dyke,...
2011-12-01
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Speaking in Colorado Springs
I’m probably going to have to put together a new SQL video, because I’ve been accepted to speak at SQL...
2011-12-01
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SQL Saturday 99 – Digineer Interview
Welcome to the second of a few sponsor interview posts from SQL Saturday 99. After reading Arnie Rowland’s (Blog | @ArnieRowland)...
2011-12-01
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Blogs
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
Forums
How to change the FDLaunch Error log file location
The file FDLAUNCHERRORLOG gets created in the default <instance>\MSSQL\Log folder. So far, I've found...
what data type i should use for roversion col and can i use less than greater
can i use Rowversioncol ( in my database it's synonyme timestamp is used) to...
Radius Latitude Longitude
I have a table with latitude longitude in the format. 45.123456 , -111.123456 ,...
Question of the Day
A Fun Computer Quote
Which movie featured this quote?
"All programs have a desire to be useful."Happy April Fools! See possible answers