Recent SQL Server Links

Listed below are interesting SQL Server related blog posts I came across recently.  If you'd like to get these emailed to you each week you can subscribe to my newsletter using the box on the right.

Management Studio tricks you may or may not know about
blogs.msdn.com/b/psssql • 5 days ago

Conor vs. window functions, sequence/ranking functions order-of-operations
blogs.msdn.com/b/conor_cunningham_msft • 5 days ago

Partitioned Tables v. Partitioned Views–Why are they even still around?
www.sqlmag.com • 5 days ago

SQL Server Database Corruption Part II: Simulating Corruption
www.sqlmag.com • 5 days ago

SQL Server Database Corruption Part I : What Is Corruption
www.sqlmag.com • 5 days ago

SQL Server 2012: How to Write T-SQL Windows Functions, Part 3
www.sqlmag.com • 5 days ago

Collecting Index Usage Statistics
www.bobpusateri.com • 5 days ago

SQL under the hood (Part 2): Estimate the SQL Disk IO Workload based on the Virtual File Stats DMV.
henkvandervalk.com • 5 days ago

DBA Darwin Awards: Log File Edition
www.brentozar.com • 5 days ago

20 Ways To Abuse T-SQL
www.real-sql-guy.com • 7 days ago

Free ebook: Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (second DRAFT preview)
blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press • 10 days ago

Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant 5.2 is Now Available
blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider • 11 days ago

An Introduction to Windows Azure (Part 1) | A Cloudy Place
acloudyplace.com • 13 days ago

Bad Habits to Kick : Using AS instead of = for column aliases
sqlblog.com/blogs/aaron_bertrand • 18 days ago

Performance impact: hyperthreading on Intel Westmere-EP processors (X5690)
sqlblog.com/blogs/linchi_shea • 20 days ago

Once More With Feeling: Stop Using Active/Passive and Active/Active
www.sqlha.com • 26 days ago

Microsoft SQL Server 2012: Evolutionary New Features for the Enterprise Data Platform
www.sqlmag.com • 26 days ago

Thank you notes…
michaeljswart.com • 26 days ago

SQL Server Can Run Databases from Network Shares & NAS
www.brentozar.com • 26 days ago

Conor vs. SQL Azure Resource Usage
blogs.msdn.com/b/conor_cunningham_msft • 26 days ago