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Deprecated Features in the SQL Server 2012 Database Engine

As you might know, Microsoft has released on March 7 the RTM version of SQL Server 2012. If you are an MSDN or TechNet Subscriber, you can already download it and play with it. As with every SQL Server release, SQL Server has also marked several features as deprecated, which means they are removed in …

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New upcoming events across Europe

I’m very happy today to announce 4 new upcoming SQL Server workshops across Europe within the next months:   SQL Server Configuration Day Date/Location April 26 in Zurich/Switzerland May 16 in Vienna/Austria Agenda Storage Configuration IO Subsystem Tests Disk Partition Alignment RAID Configuration Data-/Log-File Configuration TempDb Configuration CPU/Memory Configuration Resource Governor CPU Affinity Settings Parallelism …

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Statistics Enhancements in SQL Server 2012

Today I want to talk about Statistics Enhancements in SQL Server 2012. As you already know SQL Server uses Statistic Objects in a database to estimate the cardinality of queries. The cardinality estimation is the input for the generation of the physical Execution Plan of a given T-SQL query. Data changes over time, data distribution …

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