Good Article on Data Warehousing Best Practices in SQL Server 2008
If you are involved data warehousing, or even if you are just a beginner, you may want to check out...
2009-05-28
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Blog Posts
I Can Run Hyper-V!
I noted recently that I purchased a new desktop with the intention of moving to Windows 2008 and Hyper-V. That...
2009-05-28
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Why I Say Something about Running as Administrator
On a couple of recent webcasts, I pointed out the folks were running with the local Administrator account. To start...
2009-05-28
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Catalog view: sys.tcp_endpoints
I was playing around with the endpoint catalog views this afternoon just looking at ways to do poor man's configuration...
2009-05-27
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Configuring Auto-Retry on SQL Server Agent
The goal of this post is to explain how to take advantage of Auto-Retry and why you will want to...
2009-05-27
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Minimalist Design - Part 3
One of the labs I frequently do with students is to design a database for a training business, something which...
2009-05-27
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Speaking at Augusta Developer's Guild
Tomorrow night, May 28th, I'll be speaking the Augusta Developer's Guild. This is a make-up from earlier in the year...
2009-05-27
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Using Windows 2008 as a Workstation
I have a new machine, albeit one with a bad video card, running Windows 2008 Server R2 with Hyper-V. My...
2009-05-27
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Hyper-V
A great Hyper-V blog here at Accentient Blog.
I was searching around for information on setting up Hyper-V and I...
2009-05-26
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Saved by USB
I had the video card go bad in my new desktop, so I spent a few minutes rolling back to...
2009-05-26
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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
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...
Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
Hello, Is there a way in Azure SQL Database to change the 'Blocking Process...
Having a Little Fun at SQL Server Central
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Having a Little Fun at...
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