After publishing the first test results on a previous post I got in contact with the product team to followup the test results. After redoing the test on real hardware and in a client - server scenario, the following result could be extracted from...

For everyone being curious about the product as me, here is the official announcement of the latest public build: http://blogs.msdn.com/gertd/archive/2008/07/18/ctp-15-is-here.aspx Please send your feedback through the Connect platform to make the...

The easiest way for querying all system databases of a server is to assume that databases create by a user come with a database_id >= 5 in sys.databases. But the problem is that distribution databsaes will not be kept into this consideration. Therefore...

For the latest security update, there has been some confusion and problems installing it. There is actually an easy way to fix that, as described in the following kb article Error message when you try to install a SQL Server 2005 service pack: "SQL...