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Software Maker Halves Time-to-Market With Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 Mobile
White Papers The company chose the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 development system because it enabled fast, effective development and used it to build client software based on Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition, the .NET Compact Framework 2.0, and...
[November 15, 2006, 0:00]
SQL Server Compact 3.5
White Papers To meet the needs of this changing application landscape, Microsoft introduces its newest edition of the SQL Server database product line, SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition - a maintenance-free, compact embedded database for single-user client...
[April 30, 2008, 1:02]
SQL Server Reporting Services for Cold Fusion Developers - Level 100
White Papers Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services provides an enterprise-ready information delivery platform for building, managing, and delivering data from operational and business intelligence systems. If you already have SQL Server in your organization...
[August 6, 2007, 21:45]
Online Index Operations: SQL Server Technical Article
White Papers Introduced in SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition, the online index feature provides a powerful way to perform maintenance operations such as rebuilding or creating indexes in a production system without sacrificing DML concurrency.
[April 3, 2008, 1:02]
SQL Server 2005 Gives Microsoft IT FeedStore Group Enterprise-Grade ETL and Encryption
White Papers FeedStore, which pulls data from 39 internal sources and feeds some 500 subscribing applications, was running flawlessly on Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition. But the company upgraded to SQL Server 2005 in order to take advantage of the...
[January 1, 2007, 0:00]
TechNet Webcast: SQL Server 2005 Express Edition (Level 200)
White Papers Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition is a new redistributable version of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 that is available at no cost. This webcast helps one learn about the SQL Server 2005 Express Edition features intended specifically for database...
[October 6, 2005, 0:00]
SQL Server 2005 Row Versioning-Based Transaction Isolation
White Papers Microsoft SQL Server 2005 provides nonlocking, nonblocking read consistency to the users through snapshot isolation and read committed isolation using row versioning. This paper explains when a person can use these features to improve performance...
[December 29, 2006, 0:00]
SQL Server and Visual Studio get updated
News Chief executive Steve Ballmer officially launched SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005, along with a new beta of the company's BizTalk Microsoft also introduced a Workgroup edition of its SQL Server product for small businesses, which costs just...
[November 8, 2005, 9:35]
SQL Server 2005 Management Tools Overview
White Papers SQL Server 2005 introduces a new toolset with a myriad of new features. The general theme across the toolset is integration, with consistency across tools designed to improve productivity with SQL Server.
[April 3, 2008, 1:02]
SQL Server 2005 Security Best Practices - Operational and Administrative Tasks
White Papers This paper covers some of the operational and administrative tasks associated with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 security and enumerates best practices and operational and administrative tasks that will result in a more secure SQL Server system.
[March 29, 2008, 0:01]
SQL Server 2005 Gives Microsoft IT Document Group 7 Times Faster Full-Text Cataloging
White Papers To enhance performance, the company upgraded its document management database to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 from SQL Server 2000. Using exactly the same hardware and configurations, the company found 7 times faster full-text cataloging, and 3 times...
[February 23, 2007, 0:00]
SQL Server 2008 Pricing and Licensing
White Papers SQL Server 2008 is available under three licensing models: Server plus device Client Access License (CAL) - It requires a license for the computer running the Microsoft server product, as well as CALs for each client device.
[September 16, 2009, 1:22]
SQL Server 2008 Security Overview for Database Administrators
White Papers This paper covers some of the most important security features in SQL Server 2008. It tells one how, as an administrator, one can install SQL Server securely and keep it that way even as applications and users make use of the data stored within.
[September 16, 2009, 1:22]
TechNet Webcast: SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Architecture Drill-Down (Level 300)
White Papers The attendee of this webcast will learn about the Report Server Architecture changes in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for both the server and report engine components. The webcast gives an understanding of how these changes impact customers.
[March 25, 2008, 0:01]
SQL Server 2005 Beta 2: Using Database Mirroring for High Availability - Level 300
White Papers SQL Server 2005 database offers administrators a new technology to increase availability of their database applications. This session will provide a technology overview of Database Mirroring in Beta 2 of SQL Server 2005, and how it fits into an...
[June 23, 2004, 0:00]
TechNet Webcast: SQL Server Performance Counter Guidance (Level 300)
White Papers Monitoring performance on Microsoft SQL Server using perfmon can be difficult Having a set list of counters and knowing what to look for can help SQL Server administrators determine whether performance issues exist, and how scalable their servers...
[June 26, 2009, 1:06]
Comparison chart of free databases: MySQL 5, SQL Server 2005 Express, and Oracle 10g Express
White Papers If you're trying to choose between the recently released MySQL 5.0, SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, and the beta version of Oracle 10g Express Edition, this quick side-by-side comparison will help you sort out the features.
[May 17, 2006, 1:00]
TechNet Webcast: SQL Server Data Services Launch (Level 200)
White Papers Microsoft SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) are highly scalable, on-demand data storage and query processing Web services. Businesses use storage resources as needed when transforming large upfront capital and operations expenditures into much...
[August 4, 2008, 0:00]
SQL Server Advanced Protection and Fast Recovery with Dell EqualLogic Auto-Snapshot Manager
White Papers Microsoft SQL Server is the fastest growing RDBMS solution and supports a vast range of business critical applications. This paper discusses how the Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN provides the optimal storage architecture for local and remote...
[November 25, 2008, 12:55]
TechNet Webcast: SQL Server 2005 Security (Level 200)
White Papers This webcast highlights security concepts that are new to Microsoft SQL Server 2005, such as encryption and user-schema separation, and looks at how SQL Server 2005 breaks security down into several distinct areas.
[July 7, 2006, 0:00]
