VMFS LUN resizing options in vSphere
Introduction
First off, many thanks to Gethyn for the opportunity to post on his excellent blog.
I’m Christian Dadswell and I...
2011-08-24
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Blog Posts
What I’ve Been Up To Lately
I ran into a friend at a recent event and during the discussion he asked what I was doing lately...
2011-08-24
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A Couple of Data Compression Tricks in SQL Server 2008
As I have said several times before, I am a big fan of data compression in SQL Server 2008 and...
2011-08-23
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Autogrow bug – fixed with Denali
Recently I ran into a bug related to autogrow of the log file. Because this was the second time I...
2011-08-23
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Computed Columns and CASE
I wrote about computed columns recently, but I didn’t realize that a logical expression could be used here, such as...
2011-08-23
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Defining Your Culture
Imagine that you take over a team, department, maybe even a whole company, and as you look around at how...
2011-08-23
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Disk IO performance and SQLIO
Performance testing a new disk subsystem from a SQL Server perspective is one of the fun aspects of DBA work....
2011-08-23
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Get All SESSIONPROPERTY Values for Your Session
As a follow-up to my SERVERPROPERTY() post, this is a quick script to grab all the SESSIONPROPERTY() values from your current session in a table. Useful when you forget...
2011-08-23
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Get All SESSIONPROPERTY Values for Your Session
As a follow-up to my SERVERPROPERTY() post, this is a quick script to grab all the SESSIONPROPERTY() values from your...
2011-08-23
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Help with testing Denali, SQL Server 11
Earlier this week, Dan Jones, one of the Microsoft employees on the SQL Server team, wrote a blog post asking...
2011-08-23
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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
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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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