Don’t let the above title fool you! Have you been confused on the Microsoft SQL Server Licensing requirements? Per Processor, Per CAL, Per Core, Per Socket, Per Node – Per haps (space intended :-), we should revisit the issue again, and try to offer some assistance as you go forward in making your purchasing decisions.
Microsoft provides ten years of support (five years Mainstream Support and five years Extended Support) at the supported service pack...
So often, one sees developers doing repetitive coding in SQL Server Management Studio or Visual Studio that could be made much quicker and easier by using the Regular-Expression-based Find/Replace functionality. It is understandable, since the syntax is odd and some features are missing, but it is still worth knowing about.
A free day of training in paradise. Come to SQL Saturday in the islands on Apr 1, 2011.
Steve Jones thinks that security will be one of the biggest impediments to the adoption of cloud computing might be the security issues and hacking targets it provides.
How to rebuild your master database quickly and safely.
31 Days of SSIS
Almost time to wrap up the 31 Days of SSIS. We are down to just two more...
Many people deploy performance monitoring solutions in a "one-size-fits-all" manner. That is, they tend to build a solution that can be easily deployed to multiple servers and capture basic information from each server. The trouble is that not every server is identical, not even within the same shop. For example, not every server may have database mirroring deployed, which means your performance monitoring solution may be missing some critical pieces of information with regards to monitoring database mirroring.
I awoke this morning to see a number of stories breaking about the Intel Sandy Bridge H67/P67 Chipset Recall. I...
SQL Saturday goes international on Feb 26, 2011. If you can attend, be sure you stop by.
When building the sql-on-k8s-operator, I wanted to make sure it could handle both planned...
I’ve been doing a deep dive into SQL Server on-disk structures lately, and one...
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Thanks to everyone who joined the blog party this month. I noticed three themes...
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