Performance and Stability-Related Fixes in All SQL Server 2008 SP2 Cumulative Updates
SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 was retired and became an “unsupported service pack” back on September 17, 2012. Despite this, I have been running
SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 was retired and became an “unsupported service pack” back on September 17, 2012. Despite this, I have been running
Even though there are two newer, major releases of SQL Server available, there are still many organizations running SQL Server 2008, which was a good,
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 Cumulative Update 11, which is Build 10.0.5840.00. There are six hotfixes in the public fix list.
For Day 15 of this series, I will be covering a few tools that can be used for hardware identification. Since quite a few database
SQL Server Data Compression (which was first introduced in SQL Server 2008, and is an Enterprise Edition only feature) lets you compress individual indexes with
Since someone asked me about this today, I thought I would write about it. Aaron Bertrand (blog|twitter) and I sort of have a friendly competition
Microsoft recently released a hotfix for a memory leak leak issue that affects SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, and SQL Server 2012. This
Even though I like to talk about the most recent major releases of SQL Server, there are still plenty of organizations running SQL Server 2008,
One necessary part of being a responsible DBA is to try to configure your SQL Server instances in such a manner so they will be
If you are in charge of one or more SQL Server instances, whether they are on your laptop, or a large Production data center, you
Imagine that you are using synchronous database mirroring with SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2 or SQL Server 2012 Standard Edition.
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