Visual Studio 2010 Download Interruptus
Microsoft has made the RTM bits for the various versions and components of Visual Studio 2010 available on MSDN Subscribers...
2010-04-12
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A DMV a Day – Day 12
The DMV for Day 12 is sys.dm_db_partition_stats, which is described by BOL as:
Returns page and row-count information for every partition...
2010-04-12
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2010-04-11
1,576 reads
A DMV a Day – Day 10
Just in case you’ve just joined me, I decided on April 1 to post a different DMV query every day...
2010-04-10
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A DMV a Day – Day 9
The DMV for Day 9 is sys.dm_os_schedulers, which is described by BOL as:
Returns one row per scheduler in SQL Server...
2010-04-09
960 reads
A DMV a Day – Day 8
We have two related DMVs for Day 8. The first one is sys.dm_fts_active_catalogs, which is described by BOL as:
Returns information...
2010-04-08
1,249 reads
A DMV a Day – Day 7
I have three different DMVs for Day 7. The first one is sys.dm_db_missing_index_group_stats, which is described by BOL as:
Returns summary...
2010-04-07
1,220 reads
Big Iron on Windows 2008 R2, Earning its Keep!
This screenshot goes in the category of “geek porn”… It shows an IA64 system with 256 logical processors and 512GB...
2010-04-06
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24 Hours of PASS: Celebrating SQL Server 2008 R2
Well, we finally got the ok to start talking about the second 24 Hours of PASS event, called 24 Hours...
2010-04-06
572 reads
A DMV a Day – Day 6
The DMV for Day 6 is sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats, which is described by BOL as:
Returns counts of different types of index operations...
2010-04-06
853 reads
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The String Distance I
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The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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