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How many tools (new and enhanced) are available within SQL Server 2008 when you have a need to monitor the performance of queries that are executing/generated? The initial ones you remember is PROFILER and PERFMON (SYSMON) tools, even further few will say Performance Dashboard reports & Dynamic Management Views. The new tools that are ...

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 milestones for SQL Server.  Microsoft is excited to deliver a feature ...

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 that supports (gives you advantage on) frequently used TSQL elements, we can expect to ...

If there is any performance issue within your queries then looking at query execution plan is the first step towards assessing the loss, you may be aware that execution plans of queries and queries on partitioned tables and indexes can be examined by using the TSQL SET statements such as SET SHOWPLAN_XML or SET STATISTICS XML, or by using the ...