Not enough available space on destination..495GB available!
I bought a USB hard disk recently that I wanted to use to backup some VMware Workstation and some Hyper-V...
2012-07-13
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Blog Posts
SQL Cruise! SQL Saturdays! Summit! SQL-SQL-SQL!
We’re drawing to the end of our third season of DBAs@Midnight (our weekly webshow by DBAs, for DBAs), and to the...
2012-07-13
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SQL Error 18456
18456 is probably one of the most common errors people come across and in this article we try to cover...
2012-07-13
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SQL Server: Instant Blocking Alert Using WMI in Your Mailbox
As a DBA, it is important for all of us to get real time alert on various issues in our...
2012-07-13
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Two Socket Database Servers vs. Four Socket Database Servers
Fujitsu has submitted a new TPC-E benchmark for a two socket, Sandy Bridge-EP system that had a tpsE score of...
2012-07-13
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Using XQuery to transform multiple xml nodes to a single xml node with comma separated string value
Not another comma separated string blog post I hear you say! I know that this topic has probably been done...
2012-07-13
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View SQL Server information using Transact-SQL script
Recently one of our clients requested information about their SQL Server infrastructure which we manage. In order to complete this...
2012-07-13 (first published: 2012-07-04)
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Denali – Memory: “any size” page allocations
I blog introduction to Memory here. Considering you already know memory concept, till sql server 2008 R2, memory management is divided...
2012-07-12
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I’m Speaking: PASS Summit 2012 and more…
Tuesday, July 10th started a string of speaking engagements I have been blessed (or cursed) with in the months of...
2012-07-12
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Link List for July 12, 2012
Here are a few things I’ve found/had sent to me recently you may find interesting:
Most Common GRE Words. 400 words...
2012-07-12
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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