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For the ultimate guide to upgrading to SQL Server 2008, please refer to the SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Technical Reference Guide . A successful upgrade to SQL Server 2008 should be smooth and trouble-free. To achieve that smooth transition, you must devote
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This blog is a result of lessons learned while working with the new Integrated Full Text Search in SQL Server 2008. It is not intended to be an in-depth tutorial on how to implement it. Instead, it will concentrate on best practices. The basics of how
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Coming up this November 18-21 st is the SQL PASS Conference in Seattle, WA (right in Microsoft’s backyard). See http://summit2008.sqlpass.org/ for all the details. This SQL PASS will be very special. The SQL Server engineering team is sending up to 300
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Due to the improvements in the Windows Server 2008 memory manager related to the change in the algorithm for scanning pages in memory, SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services performed equally well during both partition and dimension processing with or without
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Reporting Services 2008 was able to respond to 3–4 times the total number of users and their requests on the same hardware without HTTP 503 Service Is Unavailable errors compared with Reporting Services 2005, regardless of the type of renderer. In stark
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Using SQL Server 2008 and SSIS 2008 the SQL Server Performance team working with Unisys and SQL CAT have shown SSIS scaling to world record performance! We loaded 1.18 TB in under 30 minutes . You can find more information here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlperf/archive/2008/02/27/etl-world-record.aspx
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The SQL Customer Advisory Team has put the final touches on the site http://sqlcat.com/ which is our new hub for all things that are part of the SQLCAT! Our new site is a portal to all SQLCAT resources including: Top 10 Lists : Summary list of Best Practices
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As anyone working with partitioned tables knows by now, the process of creating stand-alone ‘staging’ tables to support switching data into or out of a partition can be a management challenge, especially if the design of the partition table or its indices
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At first I was going to write a detailed white paper about the conversion effort. But someone has already done it. There is a very good guide at: http://nationalcom.com/home/download/Conversion-VFP-SQLServer.pdf Since FoxPro is nearing its end of life,
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It's a new year and, with it, we come bearing gifts! We have a pretty significant update to SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer. It contains many new and updated rules for Analysis Services, a few important rules for the Relational Engine, a couple bug fixes for the UI and command line tools. And all of these rules have rich documentation telling you what need to know.
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