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SQL Server 2008 R2 – New White Papers
Hello all, New white-papers were released: SQL Server 2008 R2 Upgrade Technical Reference Guide...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 01/15/2011
The SQL Swiss Army Knife #6 - Evaluating compression gains
Download code here: view_CompressionGains.sql Hello all, Here is another one focusing on SQL scripts...
Author: Pedro Lopes (PL) Date: 01/03/2011
The SQL Swiss Army Knife #5 - Checking Autogrow times
Hello all, Here is another one focusing on SQL scripts that may help DBAs, following the series "SQL...
Author: Pedro Lopes (PL) Date: 11/16/2010
SQL Server vNext – Codename “Denali” and much more …
Hello all, This week it was announced the first CTP of the next version of SQL Server (Codename...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 11/14/2010
The SQL Swiss Army Knife #4 - Making sense of FILESTREAM containers
Hello all, Here is another one focusing on SQL scripts that may help DBAs, following the series "SQL...
Author: Pedro Lopes (PL) Date: 11/02/2010
Can log files growth affect DML?
Hello all, A while back I blogged here about how a good strategy of log file growth could...
Author: Pedro Lopes (PL) Date: 10/26/2010
SQL Server 2008 SP2 is out!
The SQL Server 2008 SP2 has major improvements that include integration of reporting services with...
Author: Pedro Lopes (PL) Date: 09/30/2010
SQL Swiss Army Knife #2.1 - Scripting Logins - Updated
EDIT (20-09-2012) - Added several scripting options; does not use SQL Server 2000 system tables...
Author: Pedro Lopes (PL) Date: 06/21/2010
SQL Server and Log File usage
Hello all, I decided to talk about an issue I've recently dug a little deeper, and so i will talk...
Author: Pedro Lopes (PL) Date: 05/31/2010
SQLPort – 1st Event – Summary
Hi, First of all, I would like to say thanks to everyone that had attend this 1st Event. It was a...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 05/13/2010
SQL Server Setup Portal–Released Today!
Hello, I would like to inform you that a specialized site about the SQL Server Setup was released...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 05/13/2010
SQLPort – 1st Event – May 11th @Microsoft, Taguspark
Hi all, Next week, 11th of May, the Portuguese SQL Community – www.sqlport.com – will present the...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 05/05/2010
Operations Day (T-26 days) – May 31 – @Microsoft
Hi all, We would like to announce that on the next day – 31/05/2010 the PFE team, including some...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 04/30/2010
The SQL Swiss Army Knife #1 - Scripting Securables - Updated
EDIT (11-01-2013): Fixed issue with generating all logins even when single database was chosen....
Author: Pedro Lopes (PL) Date: 04/26/2010
SQLPORT – Launched Today – Registration is Open!
Hello all, It was launched today, @Techdays 2010 event, the Portuguese SQL Server Community –...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 04/21/2010
SQL Server 2008 R2 – RTM
Hello all, SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM was officially launched:...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 04/21/2010
TechDays 2010 – Thanks
Good Morning, I would like to let here a BIG THANKS to everyone that had attend to my sessions,...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 04/21/2010
SQL Server 2008 R2 – Free Ebook
Hi all, A free Ebook, about SQL Server 2008 R2 and the new features included on the product, was...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 04/21/2010
SQLPORT – SQL Server Portuguese Community
Hi all, One more great initiative will be starting next week, SQLPort, the Portuguese SQL Server...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 04/17/2010
TechDays 2010
Hi all, TechDays 2010 will be happening next week (20-22 of April) at Lagoas Park – Building 14, see...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 04/17/2010
Microsoft SQL Azure
The CTP 2 of SQL Azure was released last week at PASS event....
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 11/18/2009
SQL Server 2008 R2 – November CTP
Hi all, At PASS Event, last week, it was released the latest CTP of SQL Server 2008 R2, the November...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 11/18/2009
Latest Cumulative Updates for SQL Server
Hi all, These are the latest Cumulative Updates available for SQL Server – based on the actual date...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 11/18/2009
Project “Gemini” or just PowerPivot 2010
Hello, Some weeks ago, Microsoft, announced the official name of the project with codename “Gemini”...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 11/18/2009
Information about the SNAC package and Cumulative Updates
Hello, When you follow the steps to download a SQL Server 2005 (SP2/SP3) or SQL Server 2008...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 11/18/2009
Security Update – MS09-062
Hello, Normally, two releases of a SQL security update are released: GDR (General Distribution...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 11/18/2009
New white papers for SQL Server were released
Hello, New white papers where published for SQL Server 2008: Consolidation Using SQL Server 2008...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 11/18/2009
SQL Server 2008 Failover Clustering White Paper
Hello SQL Nation, A new white paper is available for SQL Server 2008. This time about the SQL...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 07/09/2009
SQL Server 2005 – Performance Dashboard installation steps
Hi, To get the Performance Dashboard for SQL Server 2005 installed you must follow these steps: 1....
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 07/01/2009
SQL Server 2008 - Slipstream
Hi, To build a slipstreamed version of the SQL Server 2008 setup, please, take a look in the...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 07/01/2009
SQL Server 2005/2008 – How to know which are the latest builds available?
Hi, It is very common to have doubts about the last build or the latest Cumulative Update available...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 07/01/2009
SQL Server 2008 - Cumulative Update 4
Hi, Yesterday, it was released the Cumulative Update 4, for SQL Server 2008 (RTM), build number...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 03/17/2009
SQL Server 2008 - White Papers
[Updated on 01/07/2009] I would like to list here some of the new white papers that are...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 03/03/2009
SQL Server Tools - Extended Events Manager & Partition Management
There are two tools available on Codeplex that you may consider to use/test: SQL Server 2008...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 03/03/2009
TDS Parser for NetMon 3.2 and 3.3 (Beta)
It is available a new set of Network Monitor Parsers that include a Microsoft SQL Tabular Data...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 03/03/2009
SQL Server 2008 SP1 (CTP)
The CTP version of the Service Pack 1 of SQL Server 2008, is already available to download:...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 03/03/2009
New Cumulative Updates in SQL Server 2005
Hello everyone, Just wanted to leave a quick note about some new releases in SQL Server 2005. On the...
Author: joalmeid Date: 02/17/2009
SQL Server 2005 and 2008 System Views Posters
Use the following links to download the official posters with the map of the System Views for...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 01/28/2009
SQL Nexus 2.5.0.7 released
Hi, A new version of the tool - SQL Nexus (2.5.0.7) was released:...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 01/28/2009
SQL Best Practices for Biztalk
As promised in my last post, here is the post for SQL Best practices for a Biztalk installation....
Author: ydaponte Date: 01/25/2009
SQL Server 2005 - SP2/SP3 and Cumulative Updates
The SP3 of SQL Server 2005, It was released last month: Microsoft SQL Server Release Services - SQL...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 01/20/2009
SQL Server 2008 Cumulative Update - #3
Yesterday, it was released the third cumulative update for SQL Server 2008, here you can find the...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 01/20/2009
SQL Best Practices for MOSS
Hello all, One question that arises often is how can we correctly configure SQL Server to work with...
Author: ydaponte Date: 12/17/2008
Cumulative update package 11 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2
Hi everyone, Our great SQL Server Releases Services Team, just release what I think it will be the...
Author: joalmeid Date: 12/16/2008
RML Utilities, version 9.01 Released
A new version of the RML Utilities for SQL Server, version 9.01, was released (with support for SQL...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 11/12/2008
How to script all my database objects? Here is the answer.
One question that sometimes arises is "How can we script all database objects throught some kind of...
Author: ydaponte Date: 11/07/2008
CPU Drift and SQL Server timing values
We recently had an issue on a 2 node SQL cluster that led us to take profile traces. Soon we...
Author: joalmeid Date: 11/06/2008
SQL Server - Performance Counters, Thresholds, etc.
These are normal questions: What counters should I select to monitor my SQL Server instance? What...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 11/05/2008
SQL Server & Disk Partition Alignment
Jimmy May is sharing a very good slide-deck about the importance of Disk Partition Alignment....
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 11/05/2008
New Update of the SQL Server Management Pack (supports SQL Server 2000/2005 and now 2008)
A new version of the SQL Server Management Pack is available for download:...
Author: Luis Canastreiro [MSFT] Date: 11/03/2008