Quick Roundup of Intel Ivy Bridge Reviews
The overall opinion seems to be that the 22nm Ivy Bridge represents a relatively small boost to CPU performance (typically...
2012-04-23
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2012-04-23
1,244 reads
Windows 2008 Server : Moving Cluster Quorum Disk to New SAN
In my earlier post, I have explained how to move the MSDTC disk to new SAN. In this post we...
2012-04-23
9,493 reads
Pragmatic Works Software for MVPs
This is just a quick post to remind folks who are current Microsoft MVPs that Pragmatic Works offers NFR licenses...
2012-04-23
1,100 reads
The Importance of a SQL Server Inventory
Pop quiz!
It’s time to true-up with Microsoft, what are your current license counts?Operations needs to schedule maintenance on ServerY, what...
2012-04-23
2,738 reads
Comments on Acceptable Behavior
Here’s the situation. We’re absolutely falling down as men and professionals. Ladies, feel free to read on and comment, but...
2012-04-27 (first published: 2012-04-23)
2,627 reads
Who are the sysadmins in this sql server?
Here’s a quick query that you can run to find out the users with sysadmin fixed server role. Sysadmins have a...
2012-04-24 (first published: 2012-04-23)
33,130 reads
Run SSMS as different Windows user
When connecting to a server from SSMS using Windows Authentication, you are limited to using only user which you used...
2012-04-23
2,445 reads
Do You Know These Free Events?
I frequently attend a few online training events that greatly help me learn new things. Thought I would share, if may...
2012-04-23
736 reads
Intel Ivy Bridge Release Coverage
Web sites, blogs and media outlets in Europe and the U.K. are starting to post some early Ivy Bridge stories,...
2012-04-23
1,071 reads
Blogs
Why AI isn’t paying off yet, and what to invest in first
Why isn’t AI paying off yet? Drawing on lessons from digital transformation, Joyful Craftsmen...
Flyway Tips: Analytics Platforms (Snowflake and Databricks)
By Steve Jones
I’m really excited about some growth in Flyway support. I’ve been asking about this...
Paginated Reporting at Scale: Choosing the Right Microsoft Platform
By Rayis Imayev
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..."— Roy Batty, Nexus-6 Replicant, Blade Runner (1982)(2026-Nov-08) Yep,...
Forums
Pay for Performance
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Too Many Choices
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Table Partitioning in SQL Server: A Practical Guide to Managing Very Large Tables (VLDBs)
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Question of the Day
Too Many Choices
I have a table, dbo.MasterBrands, with this data:
BrandID OfficialName 1 Samsung 2 Apple 3 Microsoft 4 Adidas 5 Coca-ColaI run this query. What is returned for Coca-Cola?
SELECT CHOOSE(BrandID, 'Conglomerate', 'Tech and Design', 'Desktop', 'Apparel') FROM dbo.MasterBrands;See possible answers