Jeff Moden (5/8/2015)

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To be honest, I actually blame Microsoft a bit here. It used to be that "Books Online" would install with the product. Now, it's a separate...

Kevin is right, you cannot combine the in and like items as you've done it.

Full text might help, but you'll still be building a string with multiple and statements for...

Take it

Don't see the attachment.

I suspect most of you never change this, or have the need. I haven't done it since v6.5, but ran into a question recently on how to do it,...

Sean Redmond (5/8/2015)

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At this point in time, I feel that all of Microsoft's marketing about In-Memory-OLTP is disingenuous.

What I would like to see in SQL Server 2016 In-Memory OLTP is:

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Microsoft,...

DBA_Rob (5/8/2015)

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About 80% virtual, but unlike many of the others that posted so far, our virtual environment is certainly worse performance than physical. Here we overload the virtual so...

PhilipC (5/8/2015)

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0%

for this reason " it's the human concerns or lack of confidence that prevents virtualization."

Senior Management at the company I work for just ignore the fact of visualization and...

Nice. Any metric on absolute numbers? 1 or 1000?

I suspect it's that different features will not appeal to different people. For example, the JSON...

Bradley Deem (5/6/2015)

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Unfortunately, I don't have a SQL Server example, but here's the code in Oracle using SQLPLus. The key to this solution is to carry the upgrade version in...

DBA From The Cold (5/6/2015)

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Yep, the data in the BLOBs is data retained "just in case". It has nothing to do with the day to day application operations.

I'm definitely leaning...

Just as a general call, if anyone is interested in sharing how they do this for specific code, perhaps an example of how you handle data, config, table changes, etc....

This is the DBA Stig

For sure. I've been enjoying some of the live streaming of sessions at BUILD (last week) and Ignite (this week). Almost wish I was there, but glad I wasn't traveling.