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SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer (July 2007) is available

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This week we celebrate independence.  No, I'm not referring to Independence Day in the United States.  I'm announcing the official release of SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer as an independently serviceable tool.

 

What do I mean by independently serviceable?

Software is a rapidly changing industry.  The products that we produce, the scenarios that we enable, and the expectations from our customers all change very quickly.  As all of these change, so do our recommendations and best practices.  When we learn something new, it is important to have an open channel to the customers to share this knowledge.  We will be using SQL BPA as one of the primary channels to communicate our knowledge to our broad customer base.

 

The SQL Server Customer and Partner team is dedicated to learning about how real world customers use our products to power their businesses and sharing this information with the community.  They have released a number of white papers and blog posts.

 

Starting this week, I will be transitioning from the SQL Server Manageability Team to the SQL Server Customer and Partner team.  I will take their real-world experience and knowledge and turn it into a set of rules for BPA.  The new BPA rules will be released independently from Service Packs so that we can help the community with the products currently available without requiring any change to your environment.

 

I recommend that you check out the latest version of SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer.  If you have any suggestions for improvements to the tool or a rule that would be useful, please submit your idea on Microsoft Connect.

 

Please Note:

  • Uninstall the February 2007 CTP before installing the July 2007 RTW version.

 

Resources:

SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer (July 2007)

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=da0531e4-e94c-4991-82fa-f0e3fbd05e63

 

SQL Server Best Practices

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb331794.aspx

 

Happy Fourth of July!

 

Paul A. Mestemaker II

Program Manager

Microsoft SQL Server

Comments

  • Anonymous
    July 04, 2007
    This week we celebrate independence. No, I'm not referring to Independence Day in the United States

  • Anonymous
    July 04, 2007
    This sneaked out , it does not say CTP so are we to presume this is a production version? UPDATE: Paul

  • Anonymous
    July 05, 2007
    Congrats on the job change!

  • Anonymous
    July 05, 2007
    A couple of SQL tools are available for download this week. First off is the July 2007 release of SQL

  • Anonymous
    July 06, 2007
    Il team del SQL Server Customer Advisory ha rilasciato un aggiornamento del Best Practices Analyzer per

  • Anonymous
    July 07, 2007
    We (finally) microsoft announced the the following releases of the SQL Server Best Practices Analyzer

  • Anonymous
    July 08, 2007
    Although the summer (which we have not seen much of in Belgium the last 2 weeks) has started, Microsoft

  • Anonymous
    July 18, 2007
    We are using SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer - few of the things we are really finding it useful. Lots of discussion going on about this in local sql community as well. Regards,

  • Anonymous
    September 27, 2007
    Although the summer (which we have not seen much of in Belgium the last 2 weeks) has started, Microsoft