Spring Planting 2010
Spring fever is running hot here in Parker, Colorado, after a long winter. Last year, I put in a Square...
2010-04-19
792 reads
Glenn Berry
Goggle PowerMeter Update
As I have mentioned before, I have a TED 5000 electric power monitor installed in my house that monitors and...
2010-04-19
569 reads
A DMV a Day – Day 18
The DMV for Day 18 is sys.dm_clr_tasks, which is described by BOL as:
Returns a row for all common language runtime...
2010-04-18
1,709 reads
A DMV a Day – Day 17
The DMV for Day 17 is sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats, which is described by BOL as:
Returns counts of different types of index operations...
2010-04-17
900 reads
A DMV a Day – Day 16
We have two DMVs for Day 16. The first one is sys.dm_exec_cached_plans, which is described by BOL as:
Returns a row...
2010-04-16
659 reads
A DMV a Day – Day 15
The DMV for Day 15 is sys.dm_os_performance_counters, which is described by BOL as:
Returns a row per performance counter maintained by...
2010-04-15
1,472 reads
Microsoft Changing Their Lifecycle Support Policy
Microsoft’s Bob Ward has a new post up on the CSS SQL Server Engineers blog about a change in their...
2010-04-14
1,722 reads
A DMV a Day – Day 14
The DMV for Day 14 is sys.dm_os_wait_stats, which is described by BOL as:
Returns information about all the waits encountered by...
2010-04-14
778 reads
Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate RTM Available and Installed
Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie had a good post up yesterday that highlights some of the new features in Visual Studio 2010....
2010-04-13
506 reads
A DMV a Day – Day 13
The DMV for Day 13 is sys.dm_io_virtual_file_stats, which is described by BOL as:
Returns I/O statistics for data and log files....
2010-04-13
1,190 reads
Blogs
Getting SQL Server 2025 RTM Running in Containers on macOS
SQL Server 2025 RTM is here, and if you’re running Docker on macOS, you...
The PASS Data Community Summit 2025 Recap
By Steve Jones
It’s Monday. I’ve been home since Fri night, but with a busy weekend, I’m...
Microsoft Post-Quantum Crypto APIs Are Now Generally Available
By Brian Kelley
I mentioned this in my talk on Quantum Computing at the PASS Data Community...
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The Ending Substring
In Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2025, if I run this, what is returned?
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