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Business Intelligence (BI) - is the new term from Microsoft for all Data Warehousing & Data Mining requirement since the SQL Server 2005 version is released. Say many organization face challenges with the Data Explode, this BI offers management and development tools for IT department and Business segment within your organization with ...

Since the release of SQL Server 2008 (last 2 CTPs) users are anxiously awaiting for data compression feature,  so how it is handled in this version and what it does, is it a good thing? Data compression enables you to store your data more effectively and reduce the storage requirements for your data. SQL Server 2008 provides ...

The Agile Enterprise and Independent Software Vendors (FREE - Wednesday, 12 September 2007, 19:00 - 21:00, Glasgow, United Kingdom) Agile software engineering is not the same across the enterprise and ISVs. In this talk we'll look at some of the different ways in which agile software engineering principles are applied in the enterprise and in ...

Here it is, next installment of SQL 2008 CTP which is July CTP of SQL Server 2008 is now available for download on the SQL Connect site (you need to have a passport login to download). There are few enhancements to the Reporting services, introduction of new date & time data types including the performance data colleciton. The ...

SQL 2008 books online confirms the deprecated features that are not supported with the release of RTM, those few lists are as follows: SP_DBCMPTLEVEL is replaced with ALTER DATABASE .. SET COMPATIBILITY_LEVEL SP_HELPDEVICES is replaced with sys.backup_devices system table SP_RENAMEDB is replaced with ALTER DATABASE .. MODIFY ...

Sandbox is a good place for kids to play their own ideas, by now you might have remembered what I mean about sandbox. Anyway coming to the developing communications solutions, consider playing in Microsoft's new Sandbox! To stimulate the development of new communications services and the aggregation of such services in network mashups, Microsoft ...