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Looks like SQL 2012 RTM is available for download with an evaluation version available now, the main release on April 1st.On technet “Exciting news! Microsoft announced today that SQL Server 2012 has released to manufacturing..” Download the evaluation from http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2012/03/06/sql-server-2012-released-to-manufacturing.aspx
One of the most engaging things at night in the sky is the moon. I Managed to get this shot of the moon about a month ago. Heavily cropped as I only used a 300mm zoom (450 effective).
As DBA’s and Developers we find ourselves performing more and more tasks which need to be achieved quickly and efficiently. People expect us to be using a variety of sophisticated tools to achieve what we need quickly and accurately. Here
When looking at a monthly report showing all the days of the month it can help to split up the days by highlighting the weekends. We do this by applying a change in background colour (in each column) with the method
Some of the videos and presentation material for SQL Bits 9 is available at http://sqlbits.com/. This is a great way to catch up with any missed sessions or as a refresher.
More and more of the old commands are being deprecated as SQL moves forward with integrating these more into standard T-SQL commands. Some commands which were marked as not supported in a future version of SQL Server in 2008 R2
Let’s imagine we’re producing some simple reports and we only can track the number of pies returned across a whole despatch and not for each despatch type. We have a single query whose results breakdown each DespatchID into the various
When using DPM with log shipping if you setup DPM to protect your database and then add log shipping later, DPM does not automatically pick up the change and thus eventually will break the log chain resulting in a log
The next book MVP Deep Dives, Volume 2 is now available! on Pre-Order from manning http://www.manning.com/delaney/ or from Amazon UK at http://www.amazon.co.uk/SQL-Server-Deep-Dives-Vol/dp/1617290475 The first book was a collection of short insights into sql in all areas by notable contributors and was
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