Upgrading to SQL Server 2008 - a comprehensive checklist.
There are many considerations and much preparation to do, when a company decides that it is ready to upgrade their...
2010-12-13
13,784 reads
Blog Posts
URL Based Images using SSRS
For header images, I typically embed an image into the report. However, there may be times when you need to...
2010-12-13
821 reads
Wait Stats resources
Today I was out and about looking for past roundups on TSQLTuesday. While doing that, I came across a post...
2010-12-13
706 reads
Wait Stats resources
Today I was out and about looking for past roundups on TSQLTuesday. While doing that, I came across a post from Paul Randal (Blog | Twitter) about wait stats. The...
2010-12-13
6 reads
December PASSMN Meeting This Week
Getting SQL Server for
Christmas! Happy holidays and seasons greetings!
Let PASSMN put a little SQL and PowerShell in your...
2010-12-12
629 reads
SQL Standards
Three posts, three critical rants. It's time to be constructive.
I was given the responsibility to decide on the SQL development...
2010-12-12
1,635 reads
SQLPSX 2.3.1 Release
We’ve released a minor update to SQLPSX which includes several bug fixes as well as two new modules. Here’s an...
2010-12-11
772 reads
SSIS: great idea, but buggy as heck.
Oh SSIS, how I love and hate you.
As DBA at my company, I don't actually develop much in SSIS. But...
2010-12-11
1,780 reads
12 Days of SQL, On the 2nd Day of SQL…
Microsoft gave to me, an excellent new management language. Yeah, so it doesn’t rhyme or match the song in any...
2010-12-10
781 reads
2 of my favorite new T-SQL features in SQL Server Denali (SQL 11)
Microsoft released the first CTP version of SQL Server Denali during the SQLPASS Community
Summit in Seattle last year. Since this...
2010-12-10
1,446 reads
Blogs
Upgrading SQL Server Containers on the Laptop
By Steve Jones
I don’t have SQL Server installed on my laptop. In an effort to keep...
How to Find Expensive Queries in Amazon Redshift
Slow-running queries can degrade your Redshift cluster’s performance and lead to increased costs. Identifying...
The Notification Trap: How Input Fatigue Is Killing Deep Work in Tech
By gbargsley
If you've been here before, you know this blog is usually about SQL Server,...
Forums
SQL 2019 instance with AG, across 2 Windows 2016 OS servers - OSin-place upgrade
Hi all Can I get some perspective from the community please on performing in-place...
How Long is a Long I/O?
Comments posted to this topic are about the item How Long is a Long...
T-SQL Trigonometric Functions in SQL Server
Comments posted to this topic are about the item T-SQL Trigonometric Functions in SQL...
Question of the Day
How Long is a Long I/O?
In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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