The SQL Server MCM Training Has Changed
One thing that stuck out for me at the PASS Summit was the changes announced for the SQL Server Microsoft...
2010-11-19
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Blogs
Get Drive Space Including Mount Points
Today’s post is a quick one that came out of a conversation on Twitter. To make a long story short,...
2010-11-18
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Handy Hardware Assessment Tools For SQL Server
Here is a small selection of useful tools for getting some specific hardware information from any Windows based system you...
2010-11-17
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November 2010 Version of SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries
Apparently, when I posted this a few days ago, the Windows Live Writer plug-in that I used mangled the T-SQL...
2010-11-11
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MS SQL Server 2011 aka Denali, Next Version of SQL Server - CTP 1 Now available!
Ladies and Gentlemen, SQL Server 2011, aka Denali, CTP 1 is now available as public download :
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=6a04f16f-f6be-4f92-9c92-f7e5677d91f9
Although, I'm not attending...
2010-11-10
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A Brute Force Way to Compress a Database
There are a handful of scripts out there to compress all of of the objects in your SQL 2008 database...
2010-11-09
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How Stale Are My Statistics?
Unlike fine wine, you typically wouldn’t want your statistics to be aged. At least for tables that are being updated...
2010-11-08
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November Question: What steps do you include in your database maintenance?
Database maintenance is a critical task for every DBA. For this month’s question, list the typical steps that you use...
2010-11-03
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SQLBIGeek’s Function Friday – Convert Job Duration to Seconds
Welcome to the second post of my “SQLBIGeek’s Function Friday” blog series. In this series, I am...
2010-11-03
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Creating Analysis Services Partitions Using BIDS
As your database grows in size, Analysis Services cubes that use that database grow along with it. As such, one...
2010-11-02
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Blogs
Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use
By Bert Wagner
Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
Start with the FabricTools PowerShell module
By Kamil
Managing Microsoft Fabric at scale quickly becomes painful if you rely only on the...
Enterprise AI Operating Rhythm – Top 5 practices for 2026
2025 exposed a growing gap between AI ambition and operational reality. As budgets tightened...
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