Some Moderately Big Iron on x64
Here is a screenshot from a Dell PowerEdge R910 with four 2.27GHz Intel Xeon X7560 processors and 256GB of RAM....
2010-09-08
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Blog Posts
Speaking at SQLSaturday #48 in Columbia, SC
SQLSaturday #48 is October 2nd, 2010, at Midlands Technical College in West Columbia, SC. I’ll be doing two presentations, one...
2010-09-08
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SQL Saturday Glory
Have you taken the time to plan a fall get-away for some free SQL Server training? You can do this...
2010-09-08
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SQLSaturdays
Can you believe that I have never attended a SQLSaturday (http://www.sqlsaturday.com)? Well, that is changing very soon. You will see me at...
2010-09-08
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Tip: RESTORE FILELISTONLY / WITH MOVE
As we’ve seen in recent DBARant-able tales, not everyone is completely familiar with methods of restoring SQL backup files to...
2010-09-08
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Tuning Tip: Identifying Overlapping Statistics
Statistics are used by SQL Server's query optimizer to help determine the most efficient execution plan for a query. When...
2010-09-08
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At The End of the IO Road With C#
Previously I’ve written about doing fun IO stuff in C#. I found out that some of my old tricks still...
2010-09-07
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Auto Close – SQL Server
I ran into an issue recently where I had a third party supplied database set to auto close. I couldn't...
2010-09-07
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Book Review: Rehnquist: A Personal Portrait of the Distinguished Chief Justice of the United States
Another choice brought about by wandering the local library, Rehnquist: A Personal Portrait of the Distinguished Chief Justice of the...
2010-09-07
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Links From Twitter
Normally, I try to stick to posting technical info or community stuff on the blog, but there were a couple...
2010-09-07
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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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