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Ok its time to update your local copies of SQL Server 2008 Books OnLine (BOL) too, as we have RTM version in hand. You may have installed it during CTP releases and even during short-time of RC0 release, but as always it is a good practice to update as
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For every new user in SQL Server world and experienced users to get used to newer version of SQL Server, having sample kit will definetly help out. In this scenario I often get emails asking about any samples or documentation (procedures) to get more
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Ok here is the hot news for SQL 2005 users!!! From the Are you ready for SP3 post here, it has been officially announced the SP3 for SQL Server 2005 will be available in CY2008 (calender year 2008) that means before 31st December 2008! More from this
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Here is another candidate of 7 within Cumulative Update service for SQL Server 2005 SP2. SQL Server Release Services team has announced (yesterday) that another instalment of Cumulative Update ( series here ) for SQL Server 2005 on Service Pack 2, it
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Do you have hundreds of SSIS packages to manage? Do they run at various times to address the ETL solutions within your environment? Let's say you have to modify the base table columns, so you need to consider what kind of impact this change would have
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Another set of Cumulative update package ready to download for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2, again only by the way of contacting the CSS. From our CumulativeUpdate blog series here is another one to add up as well and this CU6 package is only intended
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Here is another new year gift from Microsoft for the SQL Server users, specifically for 2005 version - release of SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer (January 2008). BPA's job is to gather data from Windows and SQL Server configuration settings. There
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You all know that it is a best practice to use the schema qualified tables or views for the better management and performance (sometimes). As the Best Practices Analyzer tool which will be a part of SQL engine from 2008 version onwards confirms that this
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Whenever a service pack is released it will be available for 32-bit and 64-bit that also includes for SQL Express 2005 edition too, as it was for MSDE earlier. Since last year (I think) Microsoft Development team has adopted a standard in naming schema
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If you remember we have blogged about release of Cumulative Update 4 for SQL Server Service Pack 2 since it has been declared to be available on download, CUpdate4-SQL2005SP2 is the one I'm referring. So is it is available for download (released recently),
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August 19 2007: As per the KBA-BlogPost on Cumulative Update 4 for SQL 2005 SP2, Microsoft confirms that this cumulative update package will be released in the October 2007 timeframe. The information that is presented here is subject to change at any
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Virtual labs - in simple words its simple to use where a pre-installed environment is setup to try out /test SQL Server installation for your databses upgrade, that has full-featured labs. Not only this you have an option to download manual with a 90-minute
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JDBC driver for SQL Server is not part of the Java SDK. To set the classpath to include the sqljdbc.jar file if you want to use it. The sqljdbc.jar file is installed in the following location: < installation directory >\sqljdbc_< version >\<
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SQL Server version 2005 Books Online aka BOL has been updated by SQL Development Team in September 2007 and not available for download yet. As usual they are awaiting customer feedback from the BOL or via MSDN/Technet pages. Refer in their words: In the
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Well this is confusing me, this DownloadLink refers SQL Server 2005 Books Online as May 2007 update that can be installed on the machine. But when you search for any content on MSDN library for SQL Server it refers " SQL Server 2005 Books Online (September
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