Month: February 2008

(I got CTP 6 running on another machine, so I’m working except for parallel plans now since it’s only a single-proc.  You guys will have

oh well.  I’ve spent a fair amount of my day attempting to manually hack out a lot of the various registry keys associated with SQL

Well, my dev box is in a bad state now – can’t install the new CTP and I had to start manually hacking on the

One of the earlier comments I received asked about costing of T-SQL and CLR functions.  More specifically, they want to know how they are costed

ok so I haven’t written anything about statistics yet on the blog, and Paul fielded a question from someone asking about details of the statistics

So I like kung-fu movies.  I don’t care how bad the acting is, as long as there is some master/relative/friend who has been killed who

The blog was down a bit today – sorry for all who got to see CLR stack traces pushed through HTTP (I *will* do a

I’ve been playing with the new grouping sets feature now that it’s in a CTP, partially because I had a small hand in them before

So there’s all sorts of legacy behaviors in SQL Server that will keep me employable for years and years because it didn’t make sense when

I previously blogged about the sequence project operator, which I helped architect/develop while working on the SQL Server QP (here).  In that same post, I

I received a comment asking about this, so I’ll write a short note on the subject. The QP will take and expand all *’s early

Had I known the number of responses I would have gotten about running SQL Server in virtual environments, I would have spent more time writing