Most Recent Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2008-2014
Here are the most recent cumulative updates for SQL Server 2014, 2012, 2008 R2 and 2008 (as of June 27, 2014) SQL Server 2014 RTM
Here are the most recent cumulative updates for SQL Server 2014, 2012, 2008 R2 and 2008 (as of June 27, 2014) SQL Server 2014 RTM
On May 5-6, 2014, I will be teaching IEHW: Immersion Event on SQL Server Hardware in Chicago, IL. This is a great opportunity for you
If you are in the process of evaluating and selecting the components for a new database server to run an OLTP workload on SQL Server
I made some small improvements to a few of the queries this month. I plan to add several more SQL Server 2014 specific queries over
(New: we’ve published a range of SQL Server interview candidate screening assessments with our partner Kandio, so you can avoid hiring an ‘expert’ who ends
One thing that I think is very important for a database professional to do as part of their regular work is to have some idea
On March 17, 2014, Microsoft released SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 Cumulative Update 9. This is Build 11.0.3412, and it has 30 hotfixes in
With the existing supply of high-performance and very affordable desktop computer components, it is not very difficult to assemble an extremely high performance workstation for
I made a couple of changes in the order of the queries this month and made some other small improvements to a few queries. Rather
A couple of weeks ago, two new TPC-E benchmark submissions showed up for four-socket servers with the new 22nm, 15-core Intel Xeon E7-4890 v2 processor
For quite some time, I have been talking about how current Intel-based four-socket database servers have had significantly lower single-threaded processor performance than current Intel-based
I improved the file-level latency query this month and made some other small improvements to a few other queries. Rather than having a separate blog
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