Goals for 2011
After getting tagged by Denis Gobo, I put my 2011 goals down on paper.
After getting tagged by Denis Gobo, I put my 2011 goals down on paper.
Tip : Identifying Key and RID Lookup Issues and How to Resolve
Earlier today, Mladen Prajdić (blog | twitter) released an updated version of his SSMS Tools Pack (v.1.9.4), a free add-in for Management Studio that provides a ton of helpful functionality that isn't available with...
Well, much quicker than I would have suspected, the SQL Server Release Services team has incorporated all of the fixes in 2005 SP3's CU #12 into the first CU for SP4. Thanks to Chris...
Last week, Microsoft offered up an early Christmas present: SQL Server 2005 SP4. This week, it's SQL Sentry's turn to play Santa Claus: several new features and fixes have been packaged up into SQL...
After releasing SQL Server 2005 SP4 on Friday (you can read more about it here), the release services team did not hang up their hats for the Christmas holiday, but continued working on other...
I talk about some questionable choices by the SQL Server naming committee.
See some new metadata-related features introduced in SQL Server 2012.
Yes, the day has finally arrived, and a couple of weeks ahead of schedule. Typically when Microsoft promises a release in Qx or Hx, the software comes on the last or second last day...
On Wednesday I presented my "What's New in Denali" presentation in Charlotte, NC. Attached is a .zip file containing the PowerPoint presentation, as well as the scripts used in the demos and some sample...
Some older versions of SQL Server documentation were not very precise about the permissions required to change a table's IDENTITY_INSERT setting.
Sometimes, Microsoft's documentation – and the occasional comment in their own code – doesn't inspire a whole lot of confidence.
This month's T-SQL Tuesday is being hosted by Steve Jones (@way0utwest) over at SQLServerCentral. For some history on T-SQL Tuesday, see Adam Machanic's posts here and here. The topic this time is summarized as:...
Last week, Ola published a very useful update to his Backup, Integrity Check and Index Optimization scripts: the solution now supports updating statistics. There are several options, such as only updating when the data...
One complaint about SEQUENCE is that there is no simple construct such as NEXT (@n) VALUES FOR so that you could get a range of SEQUENCE values as a set. In a previous post...
One of the reasons for contained databases (see my previous post) is to allow for a more seamless transition when moving a database from one server to another. One of the biggest complications in...
Attached are the slides and samples from my presentation to the Philadelphia SQL Server User Group on December 8 (Denali_PSSUG_20101208.zip). Please let me know if you have any problems. File Attachment: Denali_PSSUG_20101208.zip
Sorry to call this out in a separate post (I talked about a bunch of SSMS Connect items the other day), but Aaron Nelson (blog | twitter) jogged my memory today about an issue...