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It is very important to keep revisiting one’s code – especially, when...
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Ever since anyone starts learning Microsoft SQL Server, a...
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The SQL Server 2012 Upgrade Technical Guide is out! Woohoo! download.microsoft.com
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Create CNN-style Map in Reporting Services sqlservercentral.com
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Maintaining SQL Server default trace historical events for analysis... mssqltips.com
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just a quick note on installing SQL 32 bit on 64 bit OS.
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When I had a discussion with couple of my friends about index fragmentation, I realized that they have different understanding about index fragmentation. In this post I will try my level best to explain different types of...

Hi Friends,
Here is a simple explanation of cost threshold of parallelism server level property in SQL Server.
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Maintaining SQL Server default trace historical events for analysis and reporting mssqltips.com
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Using DML Triggers to Capture Multiple Events sqlservergeeks.com
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Derived Tables or CTE ?
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I'm attempting to create a table based on two tables, but I keep getting a mysterious syntax error near the keyword 'AS'...
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Work around for calculating age using the SQL Server DateDiff function mssqltips.com
Have you ever wanted to compute age, but the results from the DATEDIFF function seemed to be wrong some of the time? In this tip we cover why the DATEDIFF function does not always reliably compute age?

Hi SQL Geeks,
Here is an interesting blog post on "Dedicated Administrator Connection (DAC) in SQL Server"
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Database administrators tend to perform a lot of routine checks, referred to as sanity checks, on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. Rob Gravelle shows you how to write some PowerShell scripts to automate a couple of fairly...


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