Some Common Disk Drives Compared
Since I talked about how wonderful the newer Western Digital Black 6Gbps SATA III hard drives are a couple of...
2011-07-27
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Glenn Berry
Leaked Information About AMD Opteron 6200 Series Processors
CPU World has a post about some leaked info regarding the upcoming Opteron 6200 series “Bulldozer” processor line. Here are...
2011-07-26
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Building or Buying a High Performance, Low Cost Desktop Machine for SQL Server Development and Testing
There was a lengthy discussion on Twitter this morning, where one of my friends, Grant Fritchey (Twitter) was asking the...
2011-07-24
1,726 reads
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP2 Cumulative Update 5 Released
Microsoft has released Cumulative Update 5 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2. This CU has ten fixes listed in...
2011-07-18
1,572 reads
SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Released
Microsoft has finally (after releasing the CTP version way back in April) released the final, gold build of SQL Server...
2011-07-12
2,633 reads
Teaching Transact-SQL at University of Denver, University College
Starting this week on Wednesday night, I will be teaching a special five-week condensed version of ICT 4462, Transact-SQL Programming...
2011-07-12
611 reads
Performance Benefits of Adding RAM to a Laptop
I have a pretty nice Dell Latitude E6420 that I am using as a loaner laptop while I wait for...
2011-06-30
1,824 reads
July 2011 Version of SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Queries
Since July is only one day away, its time for the updated version of my SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information...
2011-06-30
1,632 reads
CPU-Z 1.58 Released
Version 1.58 of the very useful utility CPU-Z was released on June 24, 2011. Originally (and still) popular for bragging...
2011-06-27
763 reads
A Tale of Two Sandy Bridge Laptops
I recently bought a new teaching and presentation laptop, which is a Toshiba Portege R835-P55X, which I found at the...
2011-06-21
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Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: CIS Compliant
By Steve Jones
A new feature added to Redgate Monitor Enterprise automatically. CIS compliance is something many...
My 2024 in Data: Music
By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
A New Word: Suente
By Steve Jones
suente– n. the state of being so familiar with someone that you can be...
Forums
String Variable and sp_executesql
I am not understanding why this command completes "successfully" and it seems correct to...
printing complete path
get-ChildItem C:\ -recurse -erroraction silentlycontinue | sort length -descending | select -first 10 FullName,length...
Question of the Day
Superseded Indexes
Which of these indexes is superseded by another?
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