SQL Server Wait Type Repository
Microsoft’s Bob Ward has a good post up on the CSS SQL Server Engineers blog about an upcoming web page...
2009-11-08
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Glenn Berry
Worldwide Operating System Market Share for October 2009
Ars Technica has a good post up showing that Windows 7, (which has been out for two weeks) has already...
2009-11-07
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SQL Server 2008 R2 Running on “Big Iron”
During the opening keynote on Tuesday at the PASS Summit in Seattle, Microsoft’s Bob Muglia showed a demonstration of a...
2009-11-05
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New Pricing and Editions For SQL Server 2008 R2
Mary-Jo Foley recently posted about some announcements about SQL Server 2008 R2 out of the PASS Summit. There will be...
2009-11-05
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Day 1 At SQL PASS in Seattle
Today was my big, somewhat stressful day at the PASS summit in Seattle. I gave two, 75-minute Community session presentations,...
2009-11-04
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SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries
Here is the script that I used in my Dr. DMV presentation this afternoon at PASS. It is a set...
2009-11-04
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Basic iFTS Monitoring Queries
This is one of the scripts that I will be using for my presentation “Tips and Tricks for Using SQL...
2009-11-03
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Minor Setup Issue with SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2008 R2 on Windows 7
Microsoft’s Peter Saddow, who is a Program Manager on the SQL Server Setup team has a post in the SQL...
2009-11-02
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Two Very Important Configuration Settings For SQL Server 2005/2008
Two settings that I always enable when I install SQL Server 2005 or 2008 on an x64 production database server...
2009-11-01
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Suggested Max Memory Settings for SQL Server 2005/2008
It is pretty important to make sure you set the Max Server memory setting for SQL Server 2005/2008 to something...
2009-10-29
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Blogs
SQL Server 2025 Generally Available
By Brian Kelley
This was announced last week at Microsoft Ignite and it's been covered by others...
Chatting with Power BI: Who Benefits from This Conversation?
By Rayis Imayev
"Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.HAL: I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t...
A Quick Look at Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
Redgate acquired a data modeling tool from Vertabelo recently and I wanted to explore...
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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