SQL Server 2012 released!
Exciting news! Microsoft announced today that SQL Server 2012 has released to manufacturing (RTM). Customers and partners can download an...
2012-03-06
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James Serra's Blog
SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): Details on the next version of SSRS
SQL Server 2012 contains six new features for SSRS:
Excel Renderer for Microsoft Excel 2003, 2007 & 2010 - Excel renderer will support the Excel...
2012-03-05
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SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): Database Recovery Advisor
Database Recovery Advisor is a new feature in SQL Server 2012 that introduces significant user experience enhancements to the ways DBAs...
2012-03-02
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SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): Extended Events
Extended Events is a general event-handling system for performance monitoring that was introduced in SQL Server 2008. It has a highly scalable and highly configurable...
2012-02-29
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End-User Microsoft BI Tools – Clearing up the confusion
Given two types of underlying data sources (a data warehouse and a OLAP cube built from the data warehouse) there...
2012-02-27
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SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): Spatial Features
SQL Server 2012 introduces several significant enhancements to spatial types, such as support for new subtypes of circular arcs, new...
2012-02-24
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SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): FileTable
FileTable is a new feature in SQL Server 2012 that is built on top of SQL Server FILESTREAM technology, which...
2012-02-22
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Please vote for my SQLRally session
I’m hoping to do a presentation at SQLRally in Dallas on May 10-11, but I need your help!
There is a...
2012-02-21
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SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): PowerPivot
Version 2 of PowerPivot (download) is being made available with SQL Server 2012. There are many new features, and my top 5 are:
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2012-02-20
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SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): Microsoft StreamInsight
Microsoft StreamInsight, first introduced in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, is a way to effectively analyze large amounts of event...
2012-02-17
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Question of the Day
Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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