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What do these have in common? Sounds like a question on Jeopardy. There is some bad and good news as part of this. Bad Adam Saxton and I were not able to travel to Europe this past week to speak at Europe PASS.  A little volcano in Iceland got in...

I ran into an issue today that is documented but you have to know where to find it so I wanted to point it out. In the middle of a lengthy KB article # 907877 ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907877 ) the the following comment. "In a NUMA-enabled...

It looks like it would be a good post to help clarify that -2 does NOT mean ORPHAN . _____________________________________________________________________________________ CURRENT EXCHANGE _____________________________________________________________________________________...

Over the past few months I’ve filed some posts on our blog regarding our support lifecycle policies because I know sometimes this topic can get very confusing: http://blogs.msdn.com/psssql/archive/2010/02/17/mainstream-vs-extended-support-and-sql-server...

I was assisting with a SQL Server performance issue the other day.  The issue was transactional replication was unable to keep up while trying to replicate data from a transactional database to a reporting database.  This was causing the customer...

There seems to be some semantic(s) confusion on the books online description of SOFT NUMA.    The area of confusion is from the SQL Server 2008 Books Online section, shown below. Soft-NUMA SQL Server allows you to group CPUs into nodes...

What do these two subjects have in common? The SQL Server product team is currently developing an update to the SQL Server Management Pack specifically designed for System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1. There are several enhancements and fixes in...