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Tuesday, September 30, 2008 7:54 PM

How to fix your SQL Server 2008 Setup before you run setup...

Huh? This is not meant to be a brain teaser. The purpose of this post is to help you avoid problems with SQL Server 2008 setup before you run..well setup. Why not take advantage of known fixes we have for setup to avoid the problem in the first place?
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Friday, September 26, 2008 2:36 PM

Welcome to SQL Server 2008 Patching

We have posted the first cumulative update for SQL Server 2008 aptly named Cumulative Update 1 (CU1). I thought before you considered installing a patch for SQL Server 2008, you would like to see a tour of what it looks like compared to SQL Server 2005
Posted by psssql | 9 Comments
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 3:38 AM

Upgrade for SQL Server 2008 can fail if you have renamed the 'sa' account

Gail Shaw, a SQL MVP, presented me with a new issue for SQL Server 2008 I had not heard of before. It was posted at the following web site: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic560965-391-1.aspx This customer had renamed the 'sa' account as many
Posted by psssql | 3 Comments
Tuesday, September 02, 2008 8:29 PM

SQL Server 2008 Management Tools Basic vs Complete Explained....

A few questions have come up about the differences between the features you can install on SQL Server 2008 called Management Tools - Basic   and Management Tools - Complete. So I thought I'd blog about these to resolve any questions you might have.
Posted by psssql | 3 Comments
Friday, August 29, 2008 4:25 PM

How to Rebuild System Databases in SQL Server 2008

In SQL Server 2005, we introduced a different method than in previous versions to rebuild system databases (affectionately known as "rebuild master"). You were required to use the setup.exe program with command line switches. This is no different
Posted by psssql | 5 Comments
Thursday, August 28, 2008 6:54 PM

SQL Server 2008 Express, .Net Framework 2.0 SP2, and 3.5 SP1 explained...

Many of you may have read my post about dependencies with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and the .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 and SQL Server 2008. I have some related information to provide to you about SQL Server 2008 Express. If you are a user of SQL Server 2008
Posted by psssql | 5 Comments
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 8:17 PM

Why you should read the Release Notes for SQL Server 2008

Do the release notes really ever contain anything that can help you with your deployment of a product? Well in the case of SQL Server 2008, the answer is YES. Here are the following benefits for using the Releases Notes which can be found at the following
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 2:12 PM

Timeouts when connecting to Named Instances

When connecting to a SQL Named Instance, you may encounter a Timeout error when trying to connect to it if the client is Vista or Windows 2008 with the client Firewall enabled. This particular issue is only present if you are running the SQL 2008 Browser
Posted by psssql | 1 Comments
Monday, August 18, 2008 5:15 PM

Is it really the released version of SQL Server 2008?

The following is a question we have received from a few folks who were concerned after installing SQL Server 2008 that they did not have the final released build. When you use SQL Server Management Studio and select the Help/About menu choice to see what
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Monday, August 11, 2008 10:31 PM

SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 SP1, and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 explained....

PLEASE NOTE: This blog post has been updated from its original posting to clarify other details about installation of SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1. I must say that I'm personally proud to see our release of SQL Server 2008. I've been involved
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008 5:10 PM

Supporting SQL Server 2008: The system_health session

In my first post on SQL Server 2008, I introduced a new feature called Extended Events (we like to call this Xevent internally). While we were working with the XEvent development team, it dawned on us that we could perhaps build an event session that
Posted by psssql | 1 Comments
Tuesday, July 01, 2008 9:34 PM

Get Ready for SQL Server 2008

Technorati Tags: SQL Server 2008 , Extended Events Someone who contributes to this blog posted back in April that after the Europe PASS conference they would start in May creating some posts about SQL Server 2008 New Features especially ones related to
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