Today we announced Microsoft Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals (guess we let the branding people out of their cage again...) formerly known as "Data Dude" internally and by a few select outsiders. All if the info is now live here on...

Update: Added the link back in as it got lost somehow Some good posts already , I like the one about bulk loading, one of the most misunderstood areas of SQL Server in reality. Probably ripe for an FAQ or a Mythbuster...

Something for the team to be very proud of, as of yesterday SP1 was available on Microsoft Update, there were a couple of problems with non-english SKUs but those should be addressed now. Of course this also means that SP1 is available for WSUS users...

A while back I posted this entry about the history of SQL Server, one of the requests from folks who read the article was to post some box shots, well after a slightly amusing experience we finally managed to open the trophy cabinet that has all the old...

Ok so this is not a true faq yet but based on previous SPs I predict it will be soon... The KB article that wraps the hotfix is here , now a little explanation. To ship an SP, which is a large undertaking for a product as large as SQL Server, at...

In early 1998 I was working as Dev Manager at a startup in Scotland building tools for Data warehouse Design and Management, for the most part we targeted Oracle (RDBMS and Express, which they had just acquired from IRI) and Business Objects, with a little...

There are a bunch of new SQL Server Benchmarks here . The most interesting one I think is the Unisys , its a 16 proc, x64, Dual Core, with Hyperthreading machine(1/2 TB RAM). It also has a great price performance as well as raw performance.

This is an interesting one, I couldn't find this in the product docs, although I am sure it is there somewhere, I could look at the SKU spreadsheet to decipher the SKU codes, however Alan Brewer from the UE team had a better solution; You can see the...

I was at the Microsoft Hosting Summit last week, meeting with both Service Providers and our internal Hosting Evangelists. One of the most common questions that comes up in these particular environments is how to hide DBs that users do not have access...

Many moons ago(well about 4 years) we were using a top 10 list as an ice breaker for SQL Server User Group and Conference Sessions. Through a combo of my limited memory plus Michael Raheem and Patrick Conlan's archives I've managed to find most of the...