SQLskills has an ongoing initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’re all blogging about things that we often see done incorrectly,
If you are running SQL Server 2008 through SQL Server 2017, you should be thinking about what you should be doing to protect your systems
By now, you have probably heard plenty about the Spectre and Meltdown exploits that affect many modern processors. The Meltdown exploit (CVE-2017-5754) in particular only
This month, there are more minor updates to the all of the versions of the queries, primarily in the comments and documentation. There are also
I have a fairly recent vintage HP Spectre x360-13w023dx laptop (slightly over a year old) that has an Intel Core i7-7500U (Kaby Lake-U) processor, 16GB
On January 4, 2018, Microsoft released SQL Server 2017 CU3, which is Build 14.0.3015.40. By my count, this CU has sixteen public hotfixes, many of
As I have previously discussed, there has been an explosion of information and speculation about the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. Here is the official information
Over the last couple of days, you have probably heard quite a bit of chatter and speculation about some newly disclosed ways to attack various
As Kimberly blogged about earlier this year, SQLskills has an ongoing initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’re all blogging about
On December 18, 2017, Microsoft released SQL Server 2014 SP2 CU9, which is Build 12.05563.0. By my count, this CU has seven public hotfixes, nearly
Background Since the SQL Server 2005 release, SQL Server has had the default ability to collect metrics about what the query optimizer thinks are “missing”
This month, there are more minor updates to the all of the versions of the queries, primarily in the comments and documentation. There is also
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