24 Hours of PASS v2.0
The kids over at the Professional Association of SQL Server Users have done it again. They’re hosting 24 Hours of...
2010-04-06
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Uninstall 64 bit and reinstall 32 bit SQL Server
For reason's beyond the scope of this post I needed to uninstall a 64 bit version of SQL server standard...
2010-04-06
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Confio Ignite: First Impressions
One of the national sponsors for SQL Satuday is Confio Software. Just because they sponsor SQL Saturday, it’s worth checking out their...
2010-04-06
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Handicapped by Choice
The picture I got from public school about evolutionary processes - and the view that I think most people share - has...
2010-04-06
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Big Iron on Windows 2008 R2, Earning its Keep!
This screenshot goes in the category of “geek porn”… It shows an IA64 system with 256 logical processors and 512GB...
2010-04-06
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What I Do to Prep a Technical Presentation
This was a question asked on Twitter the other day, "How do folks prepare for a presentation?" Here are some...
2010-04-06
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24 Hours of PASS: Celebrating SQL Server 2008 R2
Well, we finally got the ok to start talking about the second 24 Hours of PASS event, called 24 Hours...
2010-04-06
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Writing With More Than One Voice
I’ve been blogging for a couple of years now and have slowly settled into the style and pattern of blogging...
2010-04-06
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PASS Update #28 (SQLSaturday Transition)
We’ve been busy on the transition and we’re finally at a place where we can give you an update on...
2010-04-06
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A DMV a Day – Day 6
The DMV for Day 6 is sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats, which is described by BOL as:
Returns counts of different types of index operations...
2010-04-06
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
I have a SQL Server 2025 database that I want to check for corruption every night. One of the things we do is disable indexes used for ETL loads during the weekend and re-enable them on Monday morning. If we run DBCC over the weekend, are our disabled indexes checked for consistency?
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