Special Events at PASS Summit
Besides giving two Community Session presentations (here and here), next week, I will be involved in the Birds of a...
2009-10-26
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Glenn Berry
PASS Summit Birds of a Feather Lunch
Mike Walsh, who is a PASS volunteer, has done a nice job organizing the PASS Summit Birds of a Feather...
2009-10-21
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SQL Server 2005 SP3 CU6 Released
Microsoft released Cumulative Update 6 for SQL Server 2005 SP3 yesterday (and the KB link is working today). This is...
2009-10-20
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SharePoint 2010 And SQL Server 2008 R2
Lots of interesting news and announcements coming out of the SharePoint 2009 Conference that started today in Las Vegas. Microsoft’s...
2009-10-19
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Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Available On MSDN Subscribers
Mary Jo Foley posted about Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 being available on the MSDN Subscriber’s site today, so I...
2009-10-19
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More SQL Server 2008 Book Involvement
Last night, I received my hard-copy of Pro SQL Server 2008 Mirroring from APress. This book has a lot of...
2009-10-15
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What Is Using The Most Space In Your Database ?
As I work on moving a large system with multiple database servers from a 27TB SAN to a single database...
2009-10-14
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New Dell PowerEdge R710 Database Server
My long awaited new database server arrived today! It has two, quad-core Xeon X5550 processors, 72GB of DDR3 RAM, and...
2009-10-09
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SQL Server Announcements From Microsoft
Microsoft has announced the upcoming end of mainstream support for SQL Server 2005 SP2 on January 12, 2010, and for...
2009-10-09
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What a backed up Database Mirror looks like
One thing you need to be careful about with SQL Server 2005/2008 Database Mirroring is making sure that you don’t...
2009-10-09
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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?
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