SQL Server 2005 SP3 through Microsoft Update now supports clusters
What this says to me is, if any of your clusters have automatic updating turned on, you might get SP3 as a surprise. Since the blog post states that it must be run in...
Monthly Archive: March 2009
Six reasons you should be nervous about parallelism
Don't get me wrong; parallel processing is great. And with SQL Server in particular, there are many benefits to taking advantage of the power of multiple CPUs. However, we have all had cases where...
One more post about MSXML6 SP2, XP SP3 and SQL Server : I've been duped!
Back in SQL Server 2005 days, I spent a lot of time talking about MSXML problems.
Managing the MRU list for the "Connect to Server" dialog in SSMS
I have seen many people ask for ways to delete entries from SSMS' "Connect to Server" server name list. The short and official answer is, you can't. There is an unofficial answer, though. Right...
SQL Server 2008 Cumulative Update 4 is available
If you are running SQL Server 2008 and haven't yet installed the SP1 CTP, you may want to check out Cumulative Update 4 (build 1798) in KB #963036. You obviously won't be able to...
More info / good news : installing SQL Server on XP SP3 with MSXML6 SP2
I have some good news about a problem I described a while ago, concerning attempts to install SQL Server on XP SP3 machines. The install would fail because XP SP3 places MSXML files under...