Some Intel Westmere Benchmarks
PCLab.pl has an interesting review and benchmarks of a 3.07GHz Westmere-EP processor (which is the six-core, 32nm successor to the...
2009-11-23
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Blog Posts
Some Ways To Look For Things in SQL Server Modules
If you have a medium to large database in SQL Server, with lots of stored procedures, functions or views, it...
2009-11-23
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South Florida Code Camp
I can’t wait until Feb 27 when Code Camp is right in my backyard! I just submitted my session for...
2009-11-23
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SQL Saturday Orlando Presentations now online.
My presentation and sample files from SQLSaturday in Orlando are now online for you to download. Check them out at...
2009-11-23
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Stop Splashing with -NoSplash
Many times when I'm teaching a class or working with a group, they express frustration at the load time for...
2009-11-23
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Super Seven Cube Cleanup Steps
Everyone likes to get a project done, but many times in our rush to deploy we bypass some of the...
2009-11-23
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The Car Update – Prius Sales
I haven’t done a car update in some time, and I’d like to get back to them. Surprisingly quite a...
2009-11-23
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Change the Report Manager logo
A common question I've been asked a lot lately is how to replace the icon in the Report Manager to...
2009-11-22
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Fundamentals of Storage Systems – Capturing IO Patterns
We often take the advice given to us on forums or in articles at face value. Even though the authors...
2009-11-20
4,248 reads
Get 25% Off SQL Server E-Learning from Microsoft
Not all DBAs have the opportunity to attend formal classroom training or attend conferences. While there are many SQL Server...
2009-11-20
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Blogs
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Forums
The New World Of AI Robots
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The New World Of AI...
Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Execute as failure
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
select bit_count(null)See possible answers