Torsten Schuessler

Ola Hallengren and his ongoing work of his SQL Server 2005 and 2008 - Backup, Integrity Check and Index Optimization scripts - makes me happy :-) He made some important updates to his maintenance scripts:Support for selection of schemas, objects an… more »

The Cumulative update package 11 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (Build 9.00.4309) is available at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2258854 And here you can get the whole information of builds that were released after SQL Server 2005 builds that w… more »

Microsoft announced the release of the first version of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) for MySQL!Download: Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant for MySQL v1.0 I hope you know the other SSMA for Oracle/Sybase/Access ?!So take a look here:… more »

Whitepaper at SQLCAT by Dmitry Artemov: Database Upgrade to SQL Server 2008, Tools and Approaches This paper documents approaches and tools that can help to upgrade of SQL Server databases from SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 (or… more »

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The Cumulative update package 10 for SQL Server 2005 SP3  (Build 9.00.4305 ) is available: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/983329/ The SQL Server 2005 builds that were released after SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 was released: http://support.microso… more »

Ola Hallengren and his ongoing work of his SQL Server 2005 and 2008 - Backup, Integrity Check and Index Optimization scripts - makes me happy :-) He made some updates to the maintenance scripts:New job for purging job history. It's using the stored… more »

SSMS Tools Pack 1.8 is out! This is a release that fixes all known major bugs and most of the minor ones. The main feature list hasn’t changed. You can download the new version here. So, take a look - and feel free :-) http://www.ssmstoolspack… more »

Cumulative Update Package 9 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 The cumulative update package 9 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (Build 9.00.4294) is available: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/980176/ The SQL Server 2005 builds that were released af… more »

In a earlier previous post - Which service pack do I have installed? - based on How to identify your SQL Server version and edition and usingEXEC xp_msver; for a deep dive to SQL Server version Information, the guys of http://sqlserverbuilds. blogspo… more »