SQL Server 365 - Fantastic First Year In Numbers

So, tomorrow marks one year since I started blogging here on SQL Server 365 and what a year it has...

How to Use xp_dirtree to List All Files in a Folder - Part 2

In a previous blog post, I demonstrated how you can use an undocumented stored procedure, master.sys.xp_dirtree, to list all files...

Happy New Year 2013 !

New Year begins,

Let us pray that it will be a year with new peace, new happiness and abundance of new...

December Top 4 Popular Posts

It is Monday today but its no ordinary Monday. Today is New Years Eve, its the end of December and...

2012 Blog Statistics in Review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:
About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every...

vSphere 5.1 Performance Statistic History Bug

I just discovered a few posts calling out a bug in the vSphere 5.1 vCenter performance statistic rollup procedure for...

SQLBits XI Dates Announced

SQLBits XI has been announced for the 2-4th of May 2013. Having taken place in London this year, it is moving back North to the Midlands at the East...

Introduction to Hekaton Part One: MVCC

Hello folks, welcome to a post focusing on one of the future features of SQL Server. SQL Server 2012 is barely a year old, yet there is already talk...

Test Hadoop cluster on vmware

SQL Server MVP Jeremiah Peschka posted 2 articles about Hadoop, which makes me be interested on the nosql skill.

I don't have much knowledge...

TempDB Destroyer

One of my previous posts, I covered how to create a really big database with just garbage data in it....