Next week I'll be up in Alaska for SQL Cruise, so I'll be skipping at least one digest. This week I gathered a few engine-related issues, two involving what the engine does while an index is being created. The most important one, though, at least IMHO, is the first one listed, involving a hashing algorithm fix that is in SQL Server 2008 R2 - but ...

Welcome to October!  This week I have five SQL Server items to point out to you, and two Connect-specific issues. /*------------------------------------------------------*/     SQL Server /*------------------------------------------------------*/ #331220 : Backup / Restore without index dataGreg Linwood has been pushing for ...