SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update 8 Released
Microsoft has releasedSQL Server 2008 SP1 CU8 (Build 2775). There is no corresponding CU for the RTM branch of SQL...
2010-05-18
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Glenn Berry
Some Data Compression Commands for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2
One of the more interesting and valuable features in SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition (and Datacenter Edition) is data...
2010-05-17
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Some Data Compression Commands for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2
One of the more interesting and valuable features in SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition (and Datacenter Edition) is data...
2010-05-17
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Some New DMV Queries for SQL Server 2008 R2
I was spelunking around in SQL Server 2008 R2 today, after looking at a PowerPoint presentation by Madhan Arumugam about...
2010-05-11
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Five Things SQL Server Should Drop
Joining in the current meme started by Paul Randal (blog | twitter), here is my list of five features or settings...
2010-05-11
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Finding Enterprise Only Features in Your SQL Server 2008 Database
Microsoft added a new DMV, sys.dm_db_persisted_sku_features to SQL Server 2008 that you can use to determine whether you have any...
2010-05-10
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Colorado Springs SQL Server User’s Group Meeting on Wednesday, May 19, 2010
The Colorado Springs SQL Server User’s Group is having their May meeting on May 19.
It will be held at the...
2010-05-07
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Denver SQL Server User’s Group Meeting on Thursday, May 20, 2010
The Denver SQL Server User’s Group will be having their May meeting next Thursday, May 20. As always, the meeting...
2010-05-07
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Some SQL Server Date and Time Examples
I had a question from a developer yesterday about how to calculate the difference between local time (on the database...
2010-05-06
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Using CPU-Z to Discover Hardware Information
I think it is very important to be able to discover exactly what type of hardware is in an existing...
2010-05-05
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Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Why the following cmds in sequence do not work
I need to delete rows from both the temporal main and history tables. The...
When SQL Server Central Went Down
Comments posted to this topic are about the item When SQL Server Central Went...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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