CPU issues have long been the bane of database and system administrators. I have worked on enterprise databases since the mid-1980s and seen three significant eras for CPU architecture and ...

Microsoft announced this week that it is having problems with ISO releases of SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2.

Hi everyone! It's great to be back on Database Trends and Applications magazine. While I dropped out of the regular columnist position for quite a while, I was still hard at it promoting strong ...

A Microsoft data platform MVP on the state of SQL Server today -- how it's evolved in Microsoft's Azure-first word, the best features to emerge in recent years and troubleshooting gotchas.

Okay, a co-worker typed this up for me to post. I am simply cutting and pasting from e-mail...<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote ...

No SQL service packs as of now. This server supports the accounting department's Solomon IV system and I'm not sure which SQL service pack is supported.

If you haven't installed SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1, keep it that way. If you have installed the service pack, you may be regretting it. Microsoft pulled it last week after install errors surfaced ...