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Currently, the Internet is filled with software that can quickly turn your computer into a DLNA streaming box, but we’re not going to dig into those because they are not needed. We will talk about ...

Use Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) to find the top resource-consuming queries. -- Find Top 10 Most Expensive Queries SELECT TOP 10 qs.total_elapsed_time / qs.execution_count AS [Avg Exec Time], ...

The Domain Name System is an essential part of your internet experience. We explain why it's important and show you how to upgrade to a better DNS server for increased speed and security. When the IBM ...

At today's kickoff for Microsoft Ignite, the company announced that SQL Server 2025 is finally coming. No timing was announced for the release, but based on prior versions, I would expect to see a ...

The increasing adoption of AI technologies is presenting new challenges for our customers’ data estate and applications. Most organizations expect to deploy AI workloads across a hybrid mix of cloud, ...

SUBSTRING and CHARINDEX functions are two of the most commonly used string functions in SQL. They allow you to extract and search for substrings within strings. SUBSTRING: The SUBSTRING function is ...

There are quite a few ways to extract words and substrings from lines of text on a Linux system, replace them with other strings, select delimiters, and even get rid of white space at the beginning ...

Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't. One topic that has come up in several conversations with customers ...

Learn how to use MID() and FIND() and then combine them to parse substrings from inconsistent data. Parsing data is a common task in Excel. For the most part, you’ll do so when you need to work with ...

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