Mainstream Support End || SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2

Mainstream Support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 was ended on July 8th 2014. This will result...

How to restore MSDB & MODEL database – SQL Server System Databases?

The msdb database is used by SQL Server Agent for scheduling alerts and jobs and by other features such as...

Reblog: July 4 to July 10

Photo credit – Jenn and Tony Bot
Sometimes old stuff is just as cool as new stuff. Over the past few years,...

Free Ebooks From Microsoft

Probably you’ve heard about it already, but a quick post just in case – you can download a 100 or so...

Examining OLEDB waits

On our adventure through the various types of wait statistics we end up at another popular wait type: OLEDB.

In this article we...

Notes from the July 2014 ONETUG Meeting

Rained as I left (early) for the meeting, confirming again why I always leave early – stuff happens (in Orlando, rain...

Speaker of the Month, July 2014

Another month another bunch of great presentations. I almost don’t want to do this any more. It’s hard. I sit...

Examining OLEDB waits

On our adventure through the various types of wait statistics we end up at another popular wait type: OLEDB.
In this...

Friday Followup For July 11, 2014

It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...

Creating a Matrix Infographic in SSRS

With “Matrix Infographic” I simply mean those infographics FiveThirtyEight (site | Twitter), the website of statistic revelation Nate Silver, uses to...