Monthly Archive: December 2008

As promised, upon return from a trip to the frozen tundra of Northern Ontario, I am posting the latest updates from last week's release of SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3.  For those who...

I recently posted about the availability of SQL Server 2005 SP3.  I have a bit more information about cumulative updates and the service pack, for those of you who might be confused about the...

I have seen several people make this assumption over the past few weeks, and thought I should write up a little something to drive the point home.  Primarily people are expecting to take a...

I have been involved in several discussions over the past week involving getting more diagnostic information out of the DMVs in SQL Server 2008 and beyond. Yesterday, I asked for procedure recompiles to be...

UPDATE 2008-12-16, from the team, regarding SP3 CU1: CU#1 on SP3 is nothing but a rollup of fixes from SP2 CU#10 and SP2 CU#11 that did not make it into SP3 release as these...

I was tagged by Denis Gobo to write a bog post about career challenges and how I overcame them.  I'm not going to tag anyone else because I can't seem to find anyone that...

Don't be fooled by the poor title on the page, which still says "SQL Server 2005 Books Online (September 2007)" (clearly a leftover from an earlier BOL update). The text under the overview section...

UPDATE 2008-12-03 The download packages for the database engine have returned to the download page.  Make sure you download the file labeled "SQL_Server_2008_Cumulative_Update_2" to apply to machines where the SQL Server engine is present,...