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So I was playing today with the sparse column implementation in the latest SQL 2008 CTP, and I was specifically looking to see how this

So now that I have the latest CTP working again on my main machine, it’s far less troublesome to go research things and post what

Well, I was able to get things to finally install using the information from my previous post and using a named instance (different from the

Well, I spun the wheel of database topics I have here in my room, and today I think I’ll talk about updates and views…. specifically

I’ve been mostly working with a very kind soul from the SQL Server Installer Dev Team trying to fix my box.  So far my luck

After fighting off a cold all week, I’ve had some more time to go play with CTP6 on my secondary machine. Today we’ll do some

(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