SQL Server 2008

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• Download Free E-book: Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008

  
  ProgrammerFish - Everything that's programmed! — Authority: 131
  Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 by Peter DeBetta is now available to download for free. You can view the first chapter before downloading the whole book. The Objective of this book is not to give in-depth view of the new features of SQL Server 2008 but to help people begin to grasp what can be [...] ...
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• Using Dedicated NICs to Segregate SQL Server 2008 Backup Traffic

  
  Glenn Berry's SQL Server Performance — Authority: 421
  If you need to initialize a mirrored database for SQL Server 2008 Database Mirroring, one of the first things you have to do is take a full backup of the database that you want to mirror. You can either back it up locally and copy the backup file(s) over the network to the server where you are going to mirror it, or ...
  2 days ago

• Why We Recommend Against xp_cmdshell

  
  K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security — Authority: 119
  Every so often I see a post in a forum or on  Twitter about the use of xp_cmdshell. Usually it is someone looking for a reference as to the security risk of doing so. So lets look at what using xp_cmdshell means. In SQL Server 2000 we used to have a recommendation to drop the extended stored procedure if you ...
  3 days ago

• Microsoft Project Madison

  
  Software Ruminations — Authority: 128
  Project Madison is a new Data Warehousing solution from Microsoft, born out of their purchase of DATAllegro in August 2008. It is a: “highly scalable data warehouse appliance that delivers performance at low cost through a massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture.” It’s official name is “Microsoft ...
  3 days ago

• SQL Server 2008 Database Mirroring in Action

  
  Glenn Berry's SQL Server Performance — Authority: 421
  I have been pretty busy with a server consolidation and move project at work. We had four Dell PowerEdge 6800 and four Dell PowerEdge 1950 servers that were running a number of busy, large SQL Server 2008 databases. We had previously done some vertical partitioning (splitting different application functionality across ...
  3 days ago

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Evaluation November CTP DVD-LiBiSO

  
  FileBeta — Authority: 149
  The R2 release brings significant new capabilities and enhancements that can help your business keep pace with todays growing and changing data management needs. Increase productivity and reduce data management costs by taking advantage of an even more scalable platform with comprehensive database and application ...
  5 days ago

• SQL Server Wish: Last Logon Information

  
  K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security — Authority: 119
  The other day my wife and I were driving around and noticed that a Little Caesars location had shown up near our house. The kids love their pizza and at the price, you cant beat it. So we decided after karate tonight that wed pick up pizzas from there and head home to consume the delectable product. So we do just ...
  5 days ago

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Evaluation November Download

  
  Bink.nu — Authority: 579
  SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP has numerous new and enhanced features. This document provides the information you need to fully take advantage of these features. For Analysis Services, numerous enhancements have been added to the PowerPivot field list. These include automatic relationship detection when columns ...
  1 week ago

• SQL Server Wait Type Repository

  
  Glenn Berry's SQL Server Performance — Authority: 421
  Microsoft’s Bob Ward has a good pos t up on the CSS SQL Server Engineers blog about an upcoming web page that will completely document all of the wait types from the sys.dm_os_wait_stats DMV. There will be more detailed and practical information about the individual wait types compared to what is documented in ...
  1 week ago

• My tweets from SQL PASS Summit 2009 – SSAS, PowerPivot, DAX and more

  
  Vidas Matelis Analysis Services Blog — Authority: 99
  I just came back from SQL PASS Summit 2009. About a week before that I started to use Twitter and I tried to "tweet" during the conference as much as I can. My Twitter ID is: http://twitter.com/VidasM. I decided that some of my posts could be interesting to people who do not use Twitter, so I cleaned them up a bit and ...
  1 week ago

• Dynamic Pivot in TSQL

  
  SQLServerPedia — Authority: 146
  Making dynamic even more dynamic In this month’s SQL Server Magazine (11/2009) an article was featured on the concept of dynamic pivot.   This was of interest to me because, since I peruse the stats on how people arrive at this site, I have seen several searches from Google! looking for dynamic pivot ...
  1 week ago

• SQL Server 2008 Auditing

  
  Springhouse Blog Updates — Authority: 396
  In an era of increasingly concern regarding regulations and their impact in the production environment, auditing is one of the most important topics. And, SQL Server 2008 introduces a new SQL Server Audit feature. This post will not cover all the details of it, but it will give you an opportunity to taste it. In a ...
  1 week ago

• Data Warehouse: Facts and Measures

  
  SQLServerPedia — Authority: 146
  A few days ago I wrote a post that gave an introduction to dimensions .  Today, we are going to continue covering the basic concepts included in dimensional modeling by covering an introduction to fact tables and measures.  These posts are all part of the introduction to building a data warehouse with sql server ...
  1 week ago

• Apress Pro Series: Pro SQL Server 2008 Mirroring by Robert Davis

  
  Free Your Mind All Free Download — Authority: 162
  Pro SQL Server 2008 Mirroring | Apress | 2009-10-11 | ISBN: 1430224231 | 400 pages | PDF | Pro SQL Server 2008 Mirroring is your complete guide to planning, using, deploying, and maintaining database mirroring as a high-availability option. Mirroring protects you by maintaining one or more duplicate copies of your ...
  1 week ago

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Running on “Big Iron”

  
  Glenn Berry's SQL Server Performance — Authority: 421
  During the opening keynote on Tuesday at the PASS Summit in Seattle, Microsoft’s Bob Muglia showed a demonstration of a pre-release build of SQL Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Edition on Windows Server 2008 R2. The demo started out with 64 processor cores running at about 90%. Bob pushed a button, and went to 128 ...
  1 week ago

• New Pricing and Editions For SQL Server 2008 R2

  
  Glenn Berry's SQL Server Performance — Authority: 421
  Mary-Jo Foley recently posted about some announcements about SQL Server 2008 R2 out of the PASS Summit. There will be two new, high-end SKUs of SQL Server 2008 R2, and the prices of Standard and Enterprise Edition are going to be increased somewhat over SQL Server 2008. Standard : $7,500 (Per Processor), or ...
  1 week ago

• Microsoft Preps New CTP for SQL Server 2008 R2

  
  Bink.nu — Authority: 579
  At the SQL PASS Conference this week in Seattle, Microsoft announced that it will soon deliver a third Community Technical Preview (CTP) pre-release version of its upcoming SQL Server 2008 R2 database server, then deliver the final version in the first half of 2010. The SQL Server 2008 CTP is due sometime in November, ...
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• SQL Pass Conference & Synchronization to SQL Azure

  
  Microsoft Sync Framework — Authority: 482
  Yesterday was the first day of the SQL Server conference, SQL Pass , here in Seattle.   It was a really exciting day for me because I had the opportunity to present our new synchronization capabilities to the cloud in the opening day keynote and in a subsequent session.   We introduced the first piece of ...
  1 week ago

• Day 1 At SQL PASS in Seattle

  
  Glenn Berry's SQL Server Performance — Authority: 421
  Today was my big, somewhat stressful day at the PASS summit in Seattle. I gave two, 75-minute Community session  presentations, one on SQL Server 2008 Full Text Search at 10:15AM, and the other on DMV queries at 1:30PM. In between, I hosted a Birds of a Feather table at lunch on Database mirroring. This basically ...
  1 week ago

• SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP

  
  Technology and information news at inertz.org — Authority: 432
  SQL Server 2008SQL Server 2008 R2 continues to deliver on Microsoft’s vision of a complete approach to managing information assets, with customers already realizing the benefits.“Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 is fundamentally helping to improve our relationship with our customers,” said Carolyn Conti, manager of ...
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