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
3,435 reads
Blog Posts
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
848 reads
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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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
1,017 reads
Interview with SQL Server MVP Grant Fritchey
Grant Fritchey will be speaking at the SQLServerCentral.com track at SQL Server Connections, October 31-November 3, 2011, in Las Vegas,...
2011-08-23
1,639 reads
Running totals in “Denali” CTP3
One of the things that I’m the most excited about in “Denali” CTP3 is the enhancements to the OVER clause....
2011-08-23
780 reads
SQL Server – Hide an Instance of SQL Server
You can browse available SQL Instances on network by choosing "<Browse for More..>" from Server Name drop-down list in "Connect...
2011-08-23
2,094 reads
SQLMCM Training – Day 15
The whole last 3 days I've spent almost every minute with reviewing the material from
the last 2 weeks (around 38...
2011-08-23
620 reads
SQLRelay UK
With the Olympics coming to the UK next year what better way to get into the spirit of things than...
2011-08-23
598 reads
TSQL Sudoku II
As luck would have it, today I came across this TSQL Challenge. It just so happens that I had already...
2011-08-23
1,077 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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