Tag Archives: SQL Server Denali

SQL Server “Denali” now officially “SQL Server 2012”

This morning, in his keynote address at the SQL PASS Community Summit, Ted Kummert announced that the next version of SQL Server, previously code named “Denali”, will be release in the first half of 2012, and will officially be called … Continue reading

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ServiceU is live with SQL Server “Denali”!

Today we went live with SQL Server “Denali” for our Tier-1 systems.  We did it with only 3 minutes 45 seconds of downtime, and zero problems.  We will make up that downtime between now and the end of the year … Continue reading

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sp_server_diagnostics

SQL Server “Denali” has introduced a new way to capture SQL Server health and diagnostic information with the sp_server_diagnostics stored procedure: sp_server_diagnostics [@repeat_interval =] ‘repeat_interval_in_seconds’ The stored procedure runs in “repeat mode” and periodically returns results.  Specifying 0 as the … Continue reading

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SQL Server “Denali” CTP3 Features (AlwaysOn and Security Features – Part 1)

Now that CTP3 has been released to the public, I can start to blog about a huge list of content that I have been working on related to Denali.  Although this is technically a post about CTP3 features, CTP3 is … Continue reading

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Terminology – your key to “Denali” HA/DR success

Wow.  I don’t even know where to start this post.  Let me just say that I am having nightmares of whiteboards and that my employees have joked that they are going to draw clusters in permanent marker on all of … Continue reading

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