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• StreamInsight talk coming up at SQLBits

  
  MSMVPS.COM — Authority: 659
  My talk on StreamInsight is up next. I’ll try to blog more about that later. For now, I want to mention more about SQLBits itself. This is by far the largest SQL-only conference I’ve attended (I haven’t been to SQL-PASS yet), and it’s great to be involved. Yesterday I had an all-day seminar about the ...
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• AppDev SQL Server Integration Services 2008 DVD-iNKiSO

  
  FileBeta — Authority: 148
  This course will enable technology professionals with little or no ETL experience to be comfortable and productive with the SSIS tools and technologies. In this course you will learn about the Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) and working with Control and Data Flows to build workflows to extract, ...
  4 days ago

• The Planet Joins Microsoft WebsiteSpark™ Program

  
  The Web Hosting News — Authority: 426
  (The Hosting News) – HOUSTON – The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today announced its membership in the Microsoft WebsiteSpark program. Through this partnership, The Planet provides small Web development and design firms with free Microsoft licenses for the latest versions of Windows Server and SQL ...
  4 days ago

• Record of a PSS Call

  
  Home of the Scary DBA — Authority: 127
  Not everyone has the opportunity to call Microsoft Premier Support. For those who have not yet had this experience, I’ll document my most recent, non-critical, call. Critical calls are a different critter entirely. We were experiencing a very odd error on one server in our system. When a particular procedure was ...
  5 days ago

• Cumulative Update 5 For SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1

  
  Glenn Berry's SQL Server Performance — Authority: 423
  Microsoft has released Cumulative Update 5 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 .  You can go here to request the hotfix from Microsoft. It typically takes just a few minutes for them to send you the download link and password, then you have to download and unzip with the password. This CU is Build 2746, and there ...
  5 days ago

• SQL Server 2008 iFTS Lessons Learned

  
  Glenn Berry's SQL Server Performance — Authority: 423
  We have been using SQL Server 2008 Integrated Full Text Search (iFTS) in Production at NewsGator for a little over a year, with very good results. We were able to replace a 3rd party solution that required a lot of attention, maintenance, and extra hardware, with a very simple iFTS implementation that is much easier ...
  5 days ago

• SQL Server MVP Deep Dives Book Signing At PASS Summit

  
  Glenn Berry's SQL Server Performance — Authority: 423
  Kimberly Tripp posted today about the SQL Server MVP Deep Dives book signing event at PASS on November 4. The PASS bookstore sold out of all of their copies of the book (150 in all), and many people who bought the book waited patiently in a long line to have many of the authors sign their copy. Kimberly ...
  5 days ago

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

  
  ProgrammerFish - Everything that's programmed! — Authority: 134
  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 [...] ...
  6 days ago

• Using Dedicated NICs to Segregate SQL Server 2008 Backup Traffic

  
  Glenn Berry's SQL Server Performance — Authority: 423
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Why We Recommend Against xp_cmdshell

  
  K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security — Authority: 118
  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 ...
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• Microsoft Project Madison

  
  Software Ruminations — Authority: 129
  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 ...
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• SQL Server 2008 Database Mirroring in Action

  
  Glenn Berry's SQL Server Performance — Authority: 423
  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 ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  FileBeta — Authority: 148
  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 ...
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• SQL Server Wish: Last Logon Information

  
  K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security — Authority: 118
  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 ...
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• SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Evaluation November Download

  
  Bink.nu — Authority: 570
  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 ...
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• SQL Server Wait Type Repository

  
  Glenn Berry's SQL Server Performance — Authority: 423
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  Vidas Matelis Analysis Services Blog — Authority: 92
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dynamic Pivot in TSQL

  
  SQLServerPedia — Authority: 147
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• SQL Server 2008 Auditing

  
  Springhouse Blog Updates — Authority: 92
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Data Warehouse: Facts and Measures

  
  SQLServerPedia — Authority: 147
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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