RSS feed refresh – please back off a bit (Brazil and Korea)
Fixed now – thanks so much! Folks – a couple of people have setup their systems to refresh *all* our category feeds every five minutes
Fixed now – thanks so much! Folks – a couple of people have setup their systems to refresh *all* our category feeds every five minutes
Hot on the heels of a frenzied few weeks of teaching for Microsoft and we’re off again – this time to Iceland! I’ve been wanting
This is a really interesting question that came up in the Microsoft Certified Architect class I’m teaching at present – if a database has torn-page
One of the drawbacks of not being in the SQL team at Microsoft any longer is that I don’t know about all the undocumented features
Well this one is well overdue and I’m in the middle of writing a class where I want to reference this blog post –
It seems that today is going to be one of those days where I get lost in forums and blogging – I can live with
[Edit: From 2016 SP2 onward, you can use SELECT DATABASEPROPERTYEX (‘dbname’ , ‘LastGoodCheckDbTime’ ); instead] This came up several times during the week so I
Here’s an interesting question that came in to our questions line (questions@SQLskills.com – no guarantee of an answer – I check it every so often): I
While I was at Microsoft, I wrote some code in the Storage Engine to very easily return all the IAM chains/allocation units (see this post
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the three tracks of the SQL Server 2008 JumpStart course that SQLskills.com taught internally for Microsoft and
The second part of our radio interview with TechNet has been released (see here for part 1). In this installment we discuss troubleshooting and manageability
(Cross-posted on Paul and Kimberly’s blogs) With the Spring SQL Server Connections show coming up next month, its time to start planning for the Fall
During the various courses I've been teaching, people are interested in how FILESTREAM performance compares with storing BLOBs in the database itself. I have some
Just over a month ago I posted on how to enable FILESTREAM in CTP-5 and the pre-CTP-6 build I was working with. Now that’s all
Wow – almost 10 days without a blog post – that must be a record for me! :-) Never fear – I'll be posting more
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