What I Want For My Birthday
Dell has teased us with some images of their upcoming 12th Generation servers (that will support the Intel Sandy Bridge-EP...
2012-02-29
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Glenn Berry
SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 Diagnostic Queries for March 2012
Since it is nearly March, I will go ahead and jump the gun by a few days and post an...
2012-02-28
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New Cumulative Updates For SQL Server 2008 R2
On Feb 22, 2012, Microsoft released SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Cumulative Update 5, which is Build 10.50.2806. This CU...
2012-02-24
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Behemoth of the Server Room?
Back during the PASS 2011 Summit in Seattle, I was interviewed by Tony Davis, Andrew Clark, and Rodney Landrum about...
2012-02-10
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Building or Buying a Desktop Based Development and Test Database Server
Back in April of 2011, I wrote a post that compared the merits of using an ancient, but actual rack...
2012-02-06
1,413 reads
AMD 2012-2013 Server Roadmap
AMD had their 2012 Financial Analyst Day today, which is basically a dog and pony show for stock analysts.
Previously,...
2012-02-03
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January 2012 SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 Diagnostic Information Queries
Since Microsoft recently released a couple of new Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2008, I thought it was finally time...
2012-01-23
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Database Mirroring From SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CU3
I recently ran into a production instance of SQL Server 2005 SP2 (Build 3042) that is running in a two...
2012-01-12
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Scaling SQL Server Presentation from SQLSaturday #104 Precon
On Friday, January 6, 2012, I got the opportunity to present an expanded version of my “Scaling SQL Server” presentation...
2012-01-12
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New TPC-E Benchmark for HP DL385 G7
Somewhat unnoticed during the holiday season, HP has submitted a new TPC-E benchmark for the DL385 G7 two socket database...
2012-01-04
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Displaying Money
I want to get the currency sign displayed with my amount stored in a money type. Does this work?
DECLARE @Amount MONEY; SET @Amount = '?1500'; SELECT CAST( @Amount AS VARCHAR(30)) AS EurosSee possible answers