Microsoft Student Career Portal
Microsoft Learning has put up a new Microsoft Student Career Portal that gives advice and links to resources on how...
2009-12-07
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Glenn Berry
Micron Real SSD C300
Endgadget recently had a post up about the Micron Real SSD C300 family of SATA 6Gbps SSDs that will be...
2009-12-04
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Fun With SQL Azure
Pinal Dave had a helpful post a few days ago about how to setup and configure SQL Azure. You will...
2009-12-03
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Using Resource Monitor In Windows Server 2008 to Look at I/O Performance for SQL Server 2008
One quick and dirty tool that I like to use to monitor I/O performance at the file level is Resource...
2009-12-01
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More News About AMD’s 2010/2011 Server Roadmap
AnandTech IT has an interesting post up that looks at the roadmap for AMD in the server arena for 2010/2011....
2009-11-30
1,694 reads
Teaching SQL Server 2008 Class at University of Denver – University College
I will be teaching ICT 4461 SQL Server with Lab starting Tuesday, January 5, 2010. This will be an on-campus...
2009-11-30
1,555 reads
SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries (Late November 2009)
Here is the latest version of my Diagnostic Information Queries for SQL Server 2008. Running these queries will give you...
2009-11-24
2,429 reads
Some Intel Westmere Benchmarks
PCLab.pl has an interesting review and benchmarks of a 3.07GHz Westmere-EP processor (which is the six-core, 32nm successor to the...
2009-11-23
981 reads
Some Ways To Look For Things in SQL Server Modules
If you have a medium to large database in SQL Server, with lots of stored procedures, functions or views, it...
2009-11-23
505 reads
PDC 2009 Laptop Giveaway
During Steven Sinofsky’s keynote address at PDC09 today, he started telling a story about how some of the engineers in...
2009-11-19
1,017 reads
Blogs
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...
SQL Server 2025 Generally Available
By Brian Kelley
This was announced last week at Microsoft Ignite and it's been covered by others...
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The Ending Substring
In Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2025, if I run this, what is returned?
SELECT '[' + SUBSTRING('Steve Jones', 7) + ']' See possible answers