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What more can I say.  I disagree with the kind of legislation that is being presented via SOPA and PIPA. In support of the community, my site will be...

2012-01-18

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A Trio of Functions

I found myself perusing an execution plan the other day.  I know, big surprise there.  This execution plan showed me some interesting things I had never really paid much...

2012-01-17

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Twitter and Your Career With the new blog party on the block, we have Jason Strate (blog | twitter) asking us this month these two questions: Why should average...

2012-01-16

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Missing Indexes

SQL Server has means built into it to track possible missing indexes.  This used to be found through the use of the Index Tuning Wizard.  The process has improved...

2012-01-12

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Question of the Day

Running SQLCMD I

I run the SQLCMD utility as follows:

lcmd -S localhost -E
I then type this (the 1> is the prompt):
1> select @@version go
If I hit enter, what happens?

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