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
800 reads
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
1,788 reads
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
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
Forums
Huge frustration - Database watcher with two elastic pools
Think there's a reason why this is still in preview, but have someone manage...
SQL Server 2025 Query Performance Tuning: Troubleshoot and Optimize Query Performance
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server 2025 Query Performance...
Is it uncommon for Dev's to have a data model of the source data
This is a generic question. To the moderators, I wasn't sure where to place...
Question of the Day
Creating JSON I
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG( 'City':'Denver') GOSee possible answers