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Hello , We ( Martin Bell and Chris Testa-O’Neill ) started writing an email and didn’t realise how big it would get so we stuck it on a blog instead So in summary this blog covers: Microsoft and the MVPs roll into Manchester on the 22nd May for SQLRelay...
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As the builds progress we have gotten more and more wait_types These where the number of wait_types in each version so far 202 SQL Server 2005 484 SQL Server 2008 490 SQL Server 2008 R2 631 CTP3 646 RC0 (15 more as listed below) These 15 are the ones...
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I've been working with the bare metal Hyper V and it's been an interesting time, if you haven't ever encountered windows core then it's a bit of a culture shock, as I understand it SQL Server will be running on windows core very soon ...
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SQL Server like other software unfortunately has bugs, and thankfully these are often resolved in the subsequent Service Packs & Hotfixes released One such bug was the incorrect growth of the log file, if the growth increment was any multiple of 4GB...
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Chris date is returning to the UK on June 7th and 8th. Details of the course titled "Normal Forms and All That Jazz: A Database Professional's Guide to the Theory of Database Design" can be found at http://www.justsql.co.uk/chris_date/cjd_edin_may_2012...
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For good or bad i regularly work with SSAS traces that i have saved to a table and many years ago i was regularly frustrated by the fact that the contents of the textdata column containing the query is always truncated at 65535 characters. You may think...
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Things are getting real BUZY for me on the SQL Events front already {I have plans to do a lot of SQL Events this year, to even try to match my huge 2011 tally) I have to try to find time to plan and organize all the various tasks needed to just fit it...
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As some of you probably know - I do speak a lot of SQL conference's, but getting session submissions picked can be tough @ times (especially for the larger events) Sometimes there are community voting rounds .. for a few precious slots @ these larger...
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Following on my from posting on Cardinality earlier this month, As I will likely want a way to quickly evaluate the stats history for a database http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/neilhambly/archive/2012/01/14/show-me-some-cardinality.aspx I can of course...
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SQLBits X is proving to be the most popular SQLBits yet. The team is working very hard to bring the best speakers from around the world. For those who know me you will know my focus is on BI. However I wanted to point out a number of non BI sessions that...