SQL Server 2008 Scoped Search
This may be old news, but it's also the kind of "old news" that's actually becoming more and more relevant these days. ;) More than a month ago the Microsoft SQL Server documentation team have...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 (RC0), FILESTREAM changes
At this year's Microsoft NT Conference in Portorož fellow MVP Andrej Tozon and I have presented a workshop on designing solutions with Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 using the Windows...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 RTM
I'm sure you know by now that SQL Server 2008 has RTMed about two days ago and is already available for download to MSDN/TechNet subscribers. There are additional free downloads that you might also be...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 Express with Advanced Services
The advanced edition of SQL Server 2008 Express is now available for download. As was the case with version 2005 when this edition was first introduced, the Advanced Services include (in addition to...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 Books Online Update (August 2008)
An update to SQL Server 2008 Books Online has just been published yesterday: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Books Online (August 2008). ML
View ArticleSome Old News
This may be old news, but I haven't said anything about this so far, so this may not be old news to everyone. ;) SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 SQL Server 2005 SP3 has been released on December 15th...
View ArticleSparse Columns and Filtered Indexes
At the December meeting of SLODUG, the Slovenian Developers User Group, I've presented two new functionalities introduced with SQL Server 2008: Sparse Columns – a new (or, at least, an improved) way of...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 Books Online Update (January 2009)
The January 2009 update of SQL Server 2008 Books Online has been released last Friday. The installation file is available for download: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Books Online (January 2009). An update...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 XPath Functions
The 2008 version of SQL Server has not introduced as many changes to its XPath implementation as one might have expected; nonetheless, two additional XPath functions have been added. In fact, I'm very...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1
SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 has been released on April 7th 2009, bringing a few improvements to the setup process – on top of several important fixes. Be sure to review the release notes before...
View Article[snap] Pending File Rename Operations?
I will never understand why some software/hardware vendors fail (forget?) to clean up the Windows registry after they've... well, fondled with it for reasons known only to them, such as during software...
View ArticleSQL Server MVP Deep Dives
Earlier this month, at the PASS 2009 Summit, a very special event took place – the SQL Server MVP Deep Dives book launch. As the title suggests, this is no ordinary SQL Server book, for several...
View ArticleWhat Permissions Does a Principal Have?
SQL Server Management Studio provides several ways of checking which permissions have been granted (or denied) to whom and on what objects. This is achievable on different levels within the securables...
View ArticleCannot open user default database? Login failed?
Assigning a default database to every server principal (login) is good practice, no doubt. Just think of the last time someone in your organization created a user object in master by mistake....
View ArticleSQL Server Integration Services, Execute SQL with Complex Parameters
If you're familiar with SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) then you've probably, at one time or another, run into problems with the integration bit – however weird that may sound. I can understand...
View ArticleSQL Server: The XPath ID Function
XML provides a simple and efficient way of storing relational data, especially for the purposes of transporting it from one RDBMS to another. Besides the "natural" technique, where the structure of the...
View ArticleXPath ID for People Avoiding Pubs
I discussed the ID XPath function in a recent post. I composed the data samples used in that post from the data available in the pubs sample database. Since this particular database may not be a very...
View ArticleSQL Server 2012 RTM
Earlier this month SQL Server 2012 RTM was announced, and the evaluation is now available for download: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Evaluation. The build number for the RTM is 11.0.2100.60. Related...
View ArticleXML Query Composition in Practice
XML composition using XML Query is not what you might call a popular subject, not even a frequently discussed one; well, at least as far as SQL Server is concerned. In this blog, I have discussed XML...
View ArticleSQL Server 2012: Migrating BLOBs to FILETABLEs (MVP Mondays)
I have been invited by Melissa Travers to participate in the MVP Monday Series at the Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog. The subject of my initial article is the migration of large data into FileTables,...
View ArticleSSISDB Catalog Deep Dive at Bleeding Edge 2012
Between October 22nd and 24th 2012 the fifth installment of the Bleeding Edge conference took place in Laško, Slovenia. Considering the responses from the attendees as well as the speakers, the...
View ArticleSSIS 2012 Bug with Windows Group Permissions
In October 2012 a bug was discovered in SQL Server 2012 Integration Services, specifically in the SSISDB Catalog, where permissions assigned to an SSISDB user mapped to a Windows Group login are not...
View ArticleSQL Server 2012 FileTables, Text Files and Full-text Search
In July 2012, fellow SolidQ Mentor and Microsoft MVP, Davide Mauri (@mauridb), discovered an unexpected behavior of the SQL Server 2012 Full-text Search (FTS), and/or Statistical Semantic Search...
View ArticleSQL Server Integration Services, Data Type Mapping
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) utilize several type systems – some depending on the different data providers supported by the SSIS, some depending on the environment where the service is used,...
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