Microsoft Drops Support For Itanium after SQL Server 2008 R2
Microsoft’s Dan Reger has announced that Microsoft will not be supporting the Itanium architecture after Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL...
2010-04-05
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Glenn Berry
A DMV a Day – Day 5
The DMV for Day 5 is sys.dm_db_mirroring_auto_page_repair, which is described by BOL as:
Returns a row for every automatic page-repair attempt...
2010-04-05
1,025 reads
A DMV a Day – Day 4
The DMV for Day 4 is sys.dm_os_sys_memory, which is described by BOL as:
Returns memory information from the operating system. SQL...
2010-04-04
1,353 reads
A DMV a Day – Day 3
The DMV for Day 3 is sys.dm_os_sys_info, which is described by BOL as:
Returns a miscellaneous set of useful information about...
2010-04-03
1,069 reads
A DMV a Day – Day 2
The DMV for Day 2 is sys.dm_exec_sessions, which is described by BOL as:
Returns one row per authenticated session on SQL...
2010-04-02
415 reads
Using SQL Agent Job Categories to Automate SQL Agent Job Enabling with Database Mirroring
Microsoft’s Kevin Cox (from SQLCAT) and I co-authored a blog post titled Using SQL Agent Job Categories to Automate SQL...
2010-04-01
930 reads
A DMV a Day – Day 1
Just as an experiment, I am going to post a different DMV query every day for the next 30 days. ...
2010-04-01
896 reads
Intel Xeon 7500 Series aka Nehalem-EX
Intel has finally released the long awaited (at least by me) 45nm Xeon 7500 series processor. This beast has eight...
2010-03-31
2,010 reads
SQL Server 2008 Database Mirroring: It takes a licking but it keeps on ticking!
With apologies to Timex, I just wanted to relate a minor incident that happened with one of my mirrored databases...
2010-03-30
6,187 reads
Using Custom Connection Colors in SSMS
One of the new features that was added to SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) in SQL Server 2008, which was...
2010-03-29
3,974 reads
Blogs
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...
Rambling about Data on Wheels – origins, branding, expansion
By DataOnWheels
I have been asked many times about how the name “Data on Wheels” came...
Think Twice Before Enabling Fabric’s Inbound Network Protection
Fabric inbound network protection involves two tenant-level controls: Private Link and Block Public Internet...
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AI Observability Challenges in FinOps as a DBA
Comments posted to this topic are about the item AI Observability Challenges in FinOps...
Migration Challenge: Excessive FULLSCAN Statistics Update Duration Blocking SQL
Hello everyone , I am planning to migrate a database from SQL Server 2014...
SQL Agent Job Automated Change Capture Process
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Agent Job Automated Change...
Question of the Day
Finding a Database Master Key
Where do I check for the existence of a Database Master Key (DMK) in SQL Server 2025?
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