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New Version of Partition Management Utility Available
I’m happy to announce availability of an updated version of the SQL Server Partition Management tool – now offering full support for SQL Server 2008 as well as improvements in handling SQL Server 2005. The tool is available along with source code at http://www.codeplex.com/SQLPartitionMgmt Read More...
New Best Practices Whitepaper published: "Best Practices for Migrating Non-Unicode Data Types to Unicode"
The database system in a company that is growing internationally must support multilingual characters in tables with Unicode data types. Existing d atabases that support only non-Unicode information must be migrate d from non-Unicode data type to Unicode Read More...
New Best Practices Whitepaper Published: The Impact of Changing Collations and of Changing Data Types from Non-Unicode to Unicode
When a business grows internationally, its database system must support multilingual characters in tables. Businesses that previously needed to manage only non-Unicode information must now support database tables that include non-Unicode data types such Read More...
New Best Practices Article
Scale-Out Querying with Analysis Services Using SAN Snapshots Read More...
SQL Server 2005 Transactional Replication: Benefit of using SubscriptionStreams for low bandwidth, high latency environments
Author: Bren Newman Introduction When using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Transactional Replication, the Log Reader Agent reads the log, constructs SQL statements for published articles and posts it to the Distribution database; the Distribution Agent reads Read More...
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http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/bestpractice/default.mspx Get the real-world guidelines, expert tips, and rock-solid guidance to take your SQL Server implementation to the next level. Drawing on the extensive experience and expertise Read More...
Managing Schema Changes (Part 2)
SQLCAT Blog: Managing Schema Changes (Part 2) Question: What are best practices for managing schema changes in SQL Server 2005? What are the fastest, least intrusive techniques for high availability? Answer: In Part 1, we outlined the behavior of SQL Read More...
Managing Schema Changes (Part 1)
Question: What are best practices for managing schema changes in SQL Server 2005? What are the fastest, least intrusive techniques for high availability? Answer: A common requirement as business requirements evolve over time is managing schema changes. Read More...
How can SQL Server 2005 help me evaluate and manage indexes?
SQLCAT Blog: Question: How can SQL Server 2005 help me evaluate and manage indexes? (1) How can I find out whether my indexes are useful? How are they used? (2) Do I have any tables or indexes that are not used (or rarely) (3) What is the cost of index Read More...
Obtaining Statement-Level Query Plans
In workloads that involve expensive long-running queries and reports, or complex batch operations, you frequently want to see the SQL statements and associated query plans that are active on the system or that consume the most resources. SQL Server 2005 Read More...
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