Monthly Archives: August 2013

Fixing a Bug: DBCC CHECKDB data purity checks are skipped for master and model

Fellow MVP Paul Randal just blogged about an issue he has discovered with how the master and model databases are created in SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, and SQL Server 2012. I just checked, and … Continue reading

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SQL Server 2012 RTM CU9

On August 20, Microsoft released SQL Server 2012 RTM Cumulative Update 9, which is Build 11.0.2419. I count seven fixes in the public fix list. This a very low number of hotfixes compared to all previous SQL Server 2012 Cumulative … Continue reading

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SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for August 2013

I have gone through and made some minor updates and bug fixes for all of my SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for this month. I also added two new queries at the end of the script, to collect some information … Continue reading

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Speaking at PASS Summit

I found out last week that I will be presenting three sessions at the PASS Summit 2013 in Charlotte, NC. The first one will be a full-day pre-conference session on Scaling SQL Server 2012. This will be an updated and … Continue reading

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