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In our blog post last week: Instance Wide Wait Stats we promised to show You how to visualize the collected wait stats with Microsoft Excel, so this is what this blog post will be about.
The blog post from last week will be the basic setup for this one, s...
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In this weeks blog post we will have a look at how easy it is to combine FileTables and FullText Search. Last week we had a look at some of the basics of the new FileTable feature – if you missed out on last week blog post, you can read it here – FileTable Part 1.
To get the full effect of this pow......
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In a series of blog posts we will have a look at the new SQL Server 2012 table type called FileTable. This first blog post will be a simple getting started – how to create a FileTable and how to dump files into the folder and do some simple file manipulation.
A SQL Server FileTable is a special tab......
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With SQL Server 2012 comes a new set of conversion functions, that will certainly help doing type casts and conversions in t-sql. These functions are:
TRY_PARSE
TRY_CONVERT
PARSE
TRY_PARSE()
Syntax from BOL:
TRY_PARSE ( string_value AS data_type [ USING culture ] )
This function works sim......
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I’m sure that I’m not the only one with nightmares about the startup parameters in older versions of SQL Server 200x – the design and UI is just bad, it is so easy to forget a semicolon or mess up the syntax – and to end up with SQL Server that is not able to start. Here is a little screen shot to s......
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With SQL Server 2012 a new string function is born – CONCAT(). The output is a string, as the result of the concatenation of two or more strings – if the input is another type than string a conversion will be done implicit. The CONCAT() function takes between 2 and 254 parameters.
Here is how the s......
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Microsoft has recently released the licensing overview for SQL Server 2012. A few things has changes from SQL Server 2008, and I will just give a brief overview over these changes.
CPU vs core
The first major change in my opinion is the change from CPU socket licensing to per-core based. This elim......
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