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SQL Server 2012 ‘Denali’: a new panel of DMVs

Dynamic management views (DMVs) return server state information that can be used to monitor the health of a server instance, diagnose problems and tune performance.
Since few months, I test the future new version SQL Server 2012 codename Denali and I was very surprised form the news DMVs from this version.
I will just explain some DMVs very interesting for

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SQL Server Tuning: Detect SPARSE columns candidate

dbi services search and test all tools or functions possible to optimize or to win something to propose the best tuning possible in their client.
The property of Spare columns is not the most used in client environment that we have seen.
This article present a script to find the potential columns that can have the sparse property with the

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Diving into Databases

By dbi services, we are a few poeples passionate by diving.
We take this opportunity to let you dive into the two databases lakes Oracle and SQL server and see their similarities and differences. For this first level of diving (named ODD), we will not going too deep and not have narcosis or

databases toxicity.
As always, we’ll start with

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A brief PowerShell 2.0 overview

SQL server 2008 has PowerShell and at the end of this article, I speak of this topic but to use correctly Powershell, you must have a basic notion about this technologie.

In microsoft Techdays in Basel, Marc van Orsouw presents Powershell.
I think it was a nice opportunity to presents you an overview of Powershell based on this

presentation with

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Il était une fois … SQL Server!

Cet article propose une introduction à Microsoft SQL Server en peignant son historique et en procurant un rapide aperçu de son architecture et des termes associés à cette technologie.