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  1. A Quick SQL Challenge

    So I was recently involved in an issue where a particular Unicode string was causing some problems in an application. The string was coming from a production database. I was asked to help reproduce this. It boiled down to this: Can you write a SQL Script which produces a string ...

  2. SQL Server: Part 4 : Approaching Database Server Performance Issue

    In the last three parts, we have discussed about different queries that can be used to list the current state of the database server. In this post let us discuss about listing execution stats from the plan cache. The below query will help us to list the CPU intensive queries ...

  3. The 2012 Dynamic Database Project Award

    SearchOracle.com and SearchSQLServer.com are teaming up to select three finalists and one winner of the 2012 Dynamic Database Project Award; and I’m going to be one of the judges. To enter review the Dynamic Database Project Award webpage, download the entry form, fill it out and submit ...

  4. Im Running for the PASS Board of Directors – Again

    My PASS History Serving on the PASS Board for the last 2 years has been a great experience, in those two years I’ve accomplished more with PASS than I expected yet there is still more I’d like to see happen. This is the primary reason I’ve decided ...

  5. WIT Wednesday

    On the fourth Wednesday of each month, the Women in Technology Virtual Chapter of PASS has its monthly conference call to discuss and plan upcoming WIT activities, be it SQL Saturday WIT panels or the WIT luncheon at the annual PASS Summit. To help promote women in technology, I’m ...

  6. Update to an earlier article… Ola Recommendations for his script

    Hey everyone, sorry for the delay in writing new content, but a lot of stuff has been going on for me. For the meantime, I will just say that the change of everyday life and the challenges (or opportunities depending on your point of view) that it will present you ...

  7. How to Rename SQL Server Instance

    With the release of SQL 2012 most of the companies might have started migration of SQL server to new version, In case of server migrations most of the time we will end up in a situation to install a SQL server in a different name for testing and have to ...

  8. Episode 004 – Mark Rosenberg

    Mark joins me from Austin, Texas where he is a Technical Trainer for New Horizons (www.newhorizons.com). Mark is talking today about Visual Studio 2012, Windows 8, and some of the new techniques for programming .NET applications when you upgrade to Visual Studio 2012.

  9. Master Data Services: Resources

    Here are some of my favorite Master Data Services (MDS) resources: SQL Server Master Data Services Utilities: A set of useful add-ons for SQL Server Master Data Services, including utilities for generating an MDS model, loading the model, writing a custom UI for model data and integrating the model with ...

  10. Wanted: More Object Explorer Filters

    More often than not, I’ll expand the “Tables” folder in SQL Server Management Studio and browse the list to find whatever table or index I’m looking for. This works well in many situations, but when your database has over 20,000 tables, the results can be overwhelming! As ...

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