Friday Followup For January 24, 2014

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

SSRS #73 – Marlon Ribunal and Mickey Stuewe’s New Book: Reporting Services 2012 Blueprints

The book’s link is here, SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services Blueprints.
This book is a step-by-step, task-driven tutorial that goes straight...

Error : Property Size is not available for Database "[tempdb]"

Today when I clicked Properties of tempdb in SSMS, I got the error message below:

At first I thought the database...

Webcast Follow-Up: The Flavors of Non-Clustered Indexes

Earlier today, I presented a session for Pragmatic WorksTraining on the T’s titled The Flavors of Non-Clustered Indexes.  In the session,...

Star Schema The Complete Reference – Review

I finished my first book of this year and here’s the review! After I finished the newest edition of Ralph...

More on Password Managers

Last week I posted about reviewing passwords and mentioned using a password manager as part of that effort. DaniSQL noted...

Its the little things – Service Master Keys

In advance of the yearly licensing reconciliation with Microsoft at work, I have led the charge to ensure all of...

Rochester – Welcome to the PASS MN Family

It started as a vision for expanding the reach of the Minnesota SQL Server User Group a year ago. At...

Powershell in a Month Day 12 – A Practical Interlude

This is part of my Powershell Challenge, to learn more about PowerShell (PoSh) using the Learn Windows Powershell 3 in a Month...

Get SQL Server Physical Cores, Physical and Virtual CPUs, and Processor type information using Transact-SQL (T-SQL) script

Today, I received email from one of my blog follower asking if there is any DMV or SQL script, which...