Thank you to everybody who posted comments in newsgroups, forums, and on the first SQL Server™ Best Practices Analyzer blog entry. We have been able to complete a lot of your requests already. We’ve had some great short-term success with SQL BPA 2.0. Thanks to a lot of help from the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer team, in just a couple of weeks we’ve been able to put together a prototype with the following features:...

Here is the link to my presentation: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032290644&Culture=en-US The Demo scripts for this presentation can be found in the attachment. Thanks, Hongfei Guo Note: The diagnosis...

Today I presented my first public webcast: SQL Server 2005 Performance Troubleshooting and Tuning . During the webcast, I promised that I would post references to the resources that were mentioned. See below for the links as well as the demo SQL scripts...

Last month, as part of the TechNet Webcast: Manage SQL Server 2005 Using Command Line Tools and the SQLCMD Utility (Level 200) I had used a number of scripts for the demos. During the Q&A, number of attendees had requested access to these scripts...

I’ve seen a few posts in forums and newsgroups requesting Best Practices Analyzer support for SQL Server 2005. Good news… we just started developing a new version that will work with SQL Server 2005! If you aren’t familiar with this type of utility, check...