SQLServer 2008 R2 SP3 released, Now its testing and deployment time!
As promised Microsoft released SQL Server 2008 R2 SP3 last Friday, and now this is your opportunity to test and...
2014-09-29
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SQLSailor.com
Building a Virtual Machine within Azure (IaSS) – Improvements !
Those Dev’s/UX designers out there at Microsoft seems to be pretty busy as they releasing back to back updates to windows...
2014-08-18 (first published: 2014-08-12)
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Microsoft Azure Portal Preview looks promising !
This is one of those posts which is pending for a very long time. I was pretty excited when Azure...
2014-06-26
970 reads
Journey of an On-Premises DB to Azure VM – SQL Server 2014 makes it easier!
SQL Server 2014 is deeply integrated with Windows Microsoft Azure and moving an On-prem database to a Microsoft Azure VM...
2014-04-24 (first published: 2014-04-16)
1,965 reads
Data Collector in SQLServer 2014 – What’s New !
Today I noticed couple of changes(Neat changes !) for Data Collector in SQLServer 2014. This post is a detailed walk-through of setting...
2014-04-08 (first published: 2014-04-04)
3,795 reads
SQL Server 2014 Install – Step by Step
Hot cake for the day is SQLServer 2014 RTM bits. Its generally available starting today, and I downloaded a fresh...
2014-04-01
19,253 reads
Folks,Know your Outbound Data Transfer Costs – Windows Azure
The cost associated with Outbound Data Transfer is very important when you consider bridging your On-premise network with Windows Azure.
Yes, when I...
2014-03-25 (first published: 2014-03-19)
2,688 reads
Rollback DBCC CHECKDB REPAIR !
I learned something new today while I was listening to one of the courses on corruption authored by the master,...
2014-02-06
1,590 reads
One error which you don’t want to see while doing upgrades – Missing MSI !
The cached MSI file ‘C:\Windows\Installer\<name>.msi’ is missing !!! This is one error which you don’t want to see when you are...
2014-01-14
1,214 reads
Setting up the Min and Max Memory options on the fly – Word of caution !
Apparently,setting up the Min and Max Memory setting for SQLServer should be definitely encouraged and no server should be left...
2014-01-02
835 reads
Blogs
dataMinds Connect 2026 – Slides & Scripts
You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your...
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server
By Arun Sirpal
“What exactly did it do on my server?” is the first question a DBA...
Forums
SSL/TLS Cert Validity Periods Decreasing
Hi, to all of you who are using CA certs on SQL Server boxes...
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Question of the Day
Checking the Error Log III
If I want to run sp_readerrorlog on SQL Server 2025, what permissions do I need?
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