SQL Server 2008 Data Compression Example
I was experimenting with the effects of row and page compression in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition.
First, I identified...
2008-10-31
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Blog Posts
Follow Up to Blog Review Post
A month or so ago I posted Blog Review - Yours & Mine to see what I might get for feedback about...
2008-10-30
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New Books on SQL Server 2008
Since the release of SQL Server 2008, a slew of new books have been released, or are about to be...
2008-10-30
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The October 2008 Energy Update - So Much Passion
Do we have an energy crisis or not? Is global warming real? Are we being affected by burning fossil fuels?
I...
2008-10-30
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The Wise Old Man Part 2
In my previous post The Wise Old Man Part 1 I wrote about a great session I attended during SQL...
2008-10-30
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The Wise Old Man Part 1
During one of the sessions that I attended during SQL Saturday in Orlando I had the privilege of listening to...
2008-10-29
1,691 reads
Thoughts on .Net Reflector Being Acquired by Red Gate
This is an unpaid/unsolicited comment about a product now owned by Red Gate Software. Purely my opinions, and I'll try...
2008-10-29
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A Break
Only a small one, but I appreciate every one I get. Not often that I get to leave the site...
2008-10-28
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Effecting Change
Over the years Andy Warren, Brian Knight, and I have talked about PASS quite a bit. It hasn't always been...
2008-10-28
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Free/Cheap/Good HTML Editor, Is There Such a Thing?
For the past few years I've been using Frontpage 2003 for basic HTML work, usually to write content for SQLServerCentral....
2008-10-28
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Blogs
Microsoft announces new cybersecurity AI multi-model
By Brian Kelley
Yesterday, July 27, 2026, Microsoft announced a new cybersecurity effort called Project Perception. Included...
Getting the SQL Server MCP Server Running
By Steve Jones
If you’ve wanted a SQL Server MCP server for your databases, it’s available. The...
Introducing azsql-migration-test: Test and Validate Azure SQL Database Migrations
Introducing azsql-migration-test, a small open-source CLI that validates your Azure SQL Database migrations against...
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits III
On SQL Server 2025, does DBCC CHECKDB support Memory-Optimized tables?
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