Ed Wagner (5/11/2015)

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They're also releasing SPs more frequently. The rapid-fire release strategy comes with a serious cost - customer confidence. If I have to be genuinely fearful every...

It's not the fix, it's additional testing. Hopefully, also nothing else added.

A month, however does seem long. I'd have liked...

PhilipC (5/8/2015)

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They don't believe in it, and more or less don't even want to discuss it anymore. In the past they've said virtual simply won't stand up to a physical...

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...