SQLCAT Team is back with their good old wonderful articles and this time it is around the Scale-out of SSRS and these field notes are like goldmines. Anyways, read the article here .
We finished all the three days of our online premier event - Virtual TechDays. I would consider it a success and I had lots of fun delivering something on each and every day. 2 session on Day 1 and Day 2 and today I did a lightweight session around Office tools and productivity features with Nikhil on...
Get this free e-book on Introduction to SQL Server 2008 . This atleast is a good starting point for people who want to understand the BI, High-availability, Programmability, Data-types etc introduced with SQL Server 2008. Just get online and keep reading :) ...
The SQL Server 2005 Notification Services components package made available in the February 2007 release of the Feature Pack for SQL Server 2005 is being updated to include server components and work with both SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 databases. This will surely be an interesting addition...
Catch the article from Kent for MSDN Magazine on Data Hierarchies with SQL Server 2008 . This is interesting because not many are aware of this awesome feature introduced with SQL Server 2008.
Yup, Velocity the in-memory caching DB team has their very own site. Interestingly there are some articles already on how one can use it with ASP.NET etc. Catch the blog here .
If you ask me personally, I would very well advice you to bookmark the SQLCat Team site. Anyways, there are tons of interesting articles that get published which are fundamentally lessons from the field. Catch this technical notes on running Analysis Services 2008 on Windows Server 2008 vs Windows Server...
This was an interesting post on the Programmability teams blog. I have come across a number of people asking for this feature as it works with Oracle. This blog describes one of the server options enabled with SQL Server to achieve the task. Read the blog here .
Once this does happen, this will be exciting. Trust me !!! I have been using the Table Analysis from the Excel Add-in and whenever I have showcased them, people have just loved it. Catch this space for specifics.
I am sure with RTM just right round the corner, it is important to get to know some of the tips and techniques that will help you and your customers move into SQL Server 2008. Hope this webcast takes you a step closer to this.