System Data Collection Reports
This article describes how to install the components that make up the Management Data Warehouse (MDW)
2008-12-19
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MDW
SQL Server 2008 Data Collections and the Management Data Warehouse
Data Collections are a great tool that allows DBAs to gather different statistics, and the Management Data Warehouse (MDW) is the repository for storing those statistics. This article offers an overview of Data Collections and how to configure the MDW.
2008-10-09
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Blog: How to Script a Profiler Trace as a SQL Trace Data Collection Set
MVP Brad McGehee shows how you can use Trace data as a source for your data collections for the new Management Data Warehouse
2008-10-01
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The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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