Benchmark SQL Server Disk Latency
Typically, I am a big advocate of performance monitor but one place I commonly see performance monitor being misused is with benchmarking...
2013-03-06 (first published: 2013-02-25)
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Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #21
Every day, I link out a few blogs posts and articles that I’ve read or used from across the internet....
2013-02-25
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A Month of PowerShell – Day 25 (Integrity Checks)
Welcome to Day 25 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. This series will use the series landing page on...
2013-03-07 (first published: 2013-02-25)
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SQL Saturday #187 Richmond And More
In just a couple of weeks I’ll be flying down to Richmond, VA to speak at SQL Saturday #187. I’ll...
2013-02-25
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DROP and CREATE vs ALTER
When writing a script to change a piece of code, say a stored procedure or view, there are 3 basic...
2013-03-05 (first published: 2013-02-25)
5,138 reads
Building My Next Workstation–Part 2
Building a computer, at least in the beginning, feels like something you have to do holistically and at the same...
2013-02-25
1,263 reads
SQL BLOG: Calculating total number of days from 1st Jan without using DATEDIFF function
Below script will calculate total number of days based on the input from user from 1st Jan. Though we have...
2013-02-25
894 reads
Managing Critical Server Lists with Remote Desktop Connection Manager
Most Server Administrators, whether Database Administrators or not, are quite familiar with the Remote Desktop Connection (a.k.a. RDP) tool, which...
2013-02-25
2,633 reads
Day 29 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Using Database Snapshots to Restore Replicated Databases in Test
For day 29 of my 31 Days of Disaster Recover series, I want to talk about restoring replicated databases from...
2013-02-25
1,366 reads
PerformancePoint ‘Named Set’ Filter
PerformancePoint provides several options to create filters. One of the options available is ‘Named Set’. Within SSAS cubes we can...
2013-03-01 (first published: 2013-02-25)
2,125 reads
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Negative and Positive Numbers
If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
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