DBCC SHOWCONTIG is a wonderful tool which helps you to understand quite a bit more about your system than is obvious at first glance. And, frankly, the documentation doesn’t use terminology that makes it very obvious either. So, this article will focus on a few of the big ideas behind the tool usi
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Microsoft patches up SQL Server
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SQL Extended Procedure Functions Contain Unchecked Buffers
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Microsoft Announces Notification Services
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