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Installation gotchas and guidelines - SQL Server 2008 Express, .Net Framework 2.0 SP2, and 3.5 SP1
You may be thinking installing SQL Server 2008 Express Edition is easy, yes it is when you have simple terms of usage. No issues for version 2005 though, just keep in mind about SQL Server 2008 installation when Visual Studio 2008 is/isn't present? issues Read More...
SQL Server 2008 installation vows on Windows Server 2008
After I knew about the SQL 2008 RTM release news I have blogged SQL2008RTM-official here and as usual I have attempted to download the setup media from Technet which took a while (3 hours) to download the file, due to the obvious reasons of MSDN/TEchnet Read More...
SQL Server CTP6 Error FILESTREAM feature is disabled - save your day!
I have had annoying moment when I'm trying to restore the sample database AdventureWorks on the test database server that consists SQL Server 2008 CTP6 and previous to this I have tried bits and pieces on FILESTREAM, but it seems CTP6 has changed it all Read More...
SQL Server 2008 features and getting through CTP, RC, RTM. Are we there yet?
I'm not going to shoot any questions to Microsoft about RTM release for SQL Server 2008, as it was made it clear from The Data Platform Insider blog post as: Extract: "Over the coming months, customers and partners can look forward to significant product Read More...
SQL Server 2008 TSQL enhancements - what I like?
Simple, short and crisp - I would like to say about TSQL enhancements within SQL Server 2008. You may already aware about what's new and how best you can take advantage within your code, most of the Developers would agree about IntelliSense functionality Read More...
SQL Server 2008 - What's new and what's coming up!
You may be aware that MVP s have the advantage of getting to know about the product information before it is let to the user community, that is the main advantage (I feel) to make the most of MVP award experience, Microsoft keeps MVPs informed of award Read More...
Few hours to go for Windows Server, Visual Studio and SQL Server 2008 launch, here is big deal on SQL release date!
I have been following Dan Jones's blog on " Launch_T-1 , Launch_T-3 & Launch_T-5 " series about SQL Server Launch in US (PST), as a Development Program Manager they have huge task ahead to complete and its not that easy to manage as per the schedule. Read More...
See how Resource Governor can help you 'in action' in managing SQL Server resources?
As you may be aware about new features within SQL Server 2008, one of the them is Resource Governor which is a feature than you can use to manage SQL Server workload and system resource consumption. It will enable you to specify limits on the amount of Read More...
SQL Server 2008 Data Compression, what it is - how does it work?
As you know data compression facility is added onto the SQL Server 2008 version, though this is not a new feature and I would call it as an enhanced feature in SQL Server. This subject of data compression has already been introduced in SQL Server 2005 Read More...
Learn LINQ in relation to TSQL, Orcas and many more
In continuation to my post on Linq-TSQL I was drowing on web to know more about LINQ and how-to in relation to TSQL. Here comes the resources I have used and using so far in getting information about LINQ: First, MSDNForum link on "What is LINQ? DLINQ? Read More...