SQL Server Sample Databases - All Versions
Many of you DBAs DB Devs and BI Devs in these days can have some changes from one SQL Server...
2011-12-22
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Filtering in SSMS
Do you spend seconds, maybe even minutes trying to find things in SSMS? Ever find yourself scrolling up and down thrown the tree trying to find that one specific...
2011-12-21
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Filtering in SSMS
Do you spend seconds, maybe even minutes trying to find things in SSMS? Ever find yourself scrolling up and down...
2011-12-21
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ETL from Oracle to SQL Server
I was recently asked to provide some performance tuning recommendations for an ETL process that extracts data from Oracle using...
2011-12-21
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SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): AlwaysOn
AlwaysOn is a new integrated high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solution that provides redundancy within a datacenter and across datacenters...
2011-12-21
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Explaining SQLSaturday
I wrote a while back about my coffee cup from SQLSaturday #100. I took it to work (where I usually...
2011-12-21
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VirtualBox – Cannot Register the Hard Drive Because a Hard Drive with UUID Already Exists
Virtualization is awesome! It really helps when you are a developer. On my laptop I don’t even have SQL Server...
2011-12-21
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Routing OSPF and Network Team
After a server move to the failover Data Centre – a file copy between the two sites slowed down by 6x. ...
2011-12-21
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2011 PASS Board Elections Notes
As I write this the final hours for the 2011 PASS Board of Directors elections are ticking away. Before the...
2011-12-20
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How I Got Started in Software Development-A Tribute to Ed
A tribute is an expression of gratitude or praise. As I head into this holiday season I wanted to express...
2011-12-20
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Looking for old SQL Server 1.x - 4.21 disks, manuals, boxes, etc.
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Checking the Error Log II
What is the reason I should change my old code that uses xp_readerrorlog?
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