VMware vCenter Server 5.1 will soon support Microsoft Hyper-V management
Recently VMware announced at VMworld Europe that it will soon release a product called vCenter Multi Hypervisor Manager, supposedly in...
2012-10-18
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Blog Posts
Auditing changes in Merge Replication
One trick I have learned from the folks on the Replication Support Team is how to proactively audit data changes...
2012-10-17 (first published: 2012-10-10)
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Indexing Book Winner
Back on October 3, I put up a post about a free indexing book. And specifically about Expert Performance Indexing for...
2012-10-17
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Inserted and Deleted are One Table?
Inserted and deleted tables are 2 pseudo tables preseting the before and after images of modified rows. They can only...
2012-10-17
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysfulltextcatalogs
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-10-17
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PASS 2012 Countdown – 3 Weeks To Go
Another week down and there are now 3-weeks until this year’s PASS Summit. Take a moment and register now if...
2012-10-17
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PASS Election Results Posted
Congratulations to Wendy Pastrick, James Rowland-Jones, and Sri Sridharan on winning a two year term on the PASS Board of...
2012-10-17
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Querying database usage
A question that a DBA will often be asked is what databases are actively being used on my SQL Server?...
2012-10-17
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SQL In The City: Seattle
If you missed all the great speakers on the five city tour of SQL in the City, don’t despair. Many...
2012-10-17
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SQL Server Database Backup Report using T-SQL
Today, I am going to share few very useful scripts which will report us on Database Backup from different view...
2012-10-17
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Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers