OT: Amateur Astronomy
Back in 1997, when the Mars Pathfinder bounced down on Mars on July 4, releasing the little Sojourner rover to...
2011-11-12
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Parallel execution in SSIS
Parallel execution in SSIS improves performance on computers that have multiple physical or logical processors. To support parallel execution of...
2011-11-11
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SQL Server 2008R2 BI Presenations
I recently gave a couple of presentations about the new Business Intelligence features in SQL Server 2008 R2. Here are...
2011-11-11
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SQL University: Advanced Indexing – Indexing Strategies
Right, I know it’s Friday and everyone’s tired and looking forward to the weekend, but I do need to finish...
2011-11-11
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Cool Windows 8 Blog
For those of you interested in cool new technology, you should definitely check out ?Building Windows 8? which is a...
2011-11-11
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SQL Server 2012 Licensing and Hardware Considerations
Last week, Microsoft announced some pretty fundamental changes in how SQL Server 2012 will be licensed compared to previous versions...
2011-11-11
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SQL People PASS Board interview is online–Please Comment!
Hey folks,
Welcome back to the PASS election process. The process moves forward with all of us candidates awaiting our ranking...
2011-11-10
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My Playbook For Putting On a SQLSaturday Part 3: Food
Feed Me Seymour!
Welcome to your number one cost. Every budget I’ve looked at so far food is the top expense...
2011-11-10
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Creating a Transaction Log Full Alert
When I was a kid, my mom had an old cookie-tin in which she kept her sewing supplies. On the...
2011-11-10
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Tentative Meetings
A lot of my work right now involves going to meetings. A few of them are ones I host, a...
2011-11-10
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Blogs
Flyway Tips: Object History
By Steve Jones
It’s a small change, but a handy one. Flyway Desktop (FWD) now includes the...
Car Update September 2026
By Steve Jones
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Forums
Looking for old SQL Server 1.x - 4.21 disks, manuals, boxes, etc.
Hi everyone, I'm hoping some of the longtime SQL Server professionals here might be...
Checking the Error Log II
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Parameter Sniffing on SQL Server 2025: A Walkthrough with Real Numbers
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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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