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I recently received email from one of my very close friend from California. His question was very interesting. He wanted to know how many virtual processors are there available for SQL Server. He already had script for SQL Server 2008 but was mainly looking for SQL Server 2000. He made me go to my past. [...]

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Have you ever faced situation where something does not work? When you try to fix it ‑ you enjoy fixing it and started to appreciate the breaking changes. Well, this is exactly I felt yesterday. Before I begin my story, I want to candidly state that I do not encourage anybody to use * in [...]

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In this blog post we will see three new DMVs which are introduced in Denali. The DMVs are very simple and there is not much to describe them. So here is the simple game. I will be asking a question back to you after seeing the result of the each of the DMV and you [...]

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In my recent Office Hours, I received a question on how to determine the case sensitivity of the database. The quick answer to this is to identify the collation of the database and check the properties of the collation. I have previously written how one can identify database collation. Once you have figured out the [...]

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One more quick introduction to DMV for Denali. Following DMV provides information about Windows Operating System. Here is the quick example of the same. This DMV returns information about the operating system volume (directory) on which the specified databases and files are stored. Here is the quick example I have created for the same. SELECT [...]

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