HTC Pro Trade-In
I saw a note that T-Mobile is accepting trade-ins of an iPhone for credit towards a new HTC HD2. That’s...
2010-04-05
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Blog Posts
Microsoft Drops Support For Itanium after SQL Server 2008 R2
Microsoft’s Dan Reger has announced that Microsoft will not be supporting the Itanium architecture after Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL...
2010-04-05
2,336 reads
Nested views causing query performance woes....
Just ran into an interesting issue AGAIN. It seems that when you nest views in a query you are opening...
2010-04-05
8,688 reads
nHibernate, First Look at TSQL
I’ve blogged in the past about the nHibernate project that has been going on at my company for the last...
2010-04-05
1,017 reads
Product Review: Fences
Fences is a free utility for the Windows desktop that lets you drag shortcuts into boxes you define (fences) and...
2010-04-05
430 reads
A DMV a Day – Day 4
The DMV for Day 4 is sys.dm_os_sys_memory, which is described by BOL as:
Returns memory information from the operating system. SQL...
2010-04-04
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Differential Backups
My last few posts have been backup orientated, I have a post on Full Backup, a post on Transaction Log...
2010-04-04
1,297 reads
Parsing SQL for Table Names
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition (VSDB) ships with a .NET class for parsing T-SQL. I’ve previously blogged about...
2010-04-04
2,170 reads
SQL Server 2008 MCM Results
SQL Server 2008 MCM Results
3 weeks of intense training, intense studying, 3 written tests, and one 6 hour lab exam....
2010-04-04
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SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit (March 2010 Update 2)
SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit (March 2010 Update 2)
15 Presentation 24 Demo13 Hands-on Labs35 Videos
The training kit...
2010-04-04
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Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers