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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]
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 2008: Licensing will be exploited to win customers
News The forthcoming launch of SQL Server 2008 will see Microsoft focus its considerable resources on the issue of licensing, to win customers from rivals Oracle and IBM. Our perspective is that SQL has become very widely adopted, even among the...
[November 15, 2007, 15:00]
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 Critical Update Tools
Downloads The three tools previously available for download on this page -- SQL Server 2000 SQL Scan, SQL Check, and SQL Critical Update -- have been consolidated into a single download, the SQL Critical Update Kit.
[February 15, 2003, 7:45]
SQL Server 2000 Failover Clustering
White Papers Achieving high availability requires a whole solution, part of which includes the SQL Server 2000 Server failover clustering. Users demand not only performance and scalability, but availability of the applications they use.
[December 22, 2006, 0:00]
TechNet Webcast: SQL Server 2005 for the IT Professional (Part 11 of 11): Best Practices in Building Robust, Recoverable, and Reliable Systems (Level 200)
White Papers In this eleventh and last webcast of the SQL Server 2005 for the IT Professional series, the presenter reviews key areas discussed throughout the series to ensure that all areas have been covered. This webcast should keep the attendee thinking...
[December 31, 2008, 0:00]
MSDN Webcast: SQL Server 2005 Essentials (Part 09 of 14): XQuery (Level 200)
White Papers This ninth webcast of a 14-part series on Microsoft SQL Server 2005 shows how to use XQuery functions with the XML data type. XML brings with it some powerful query languages for dealing with the hierarchical format that it typical of an XML document.
[December 31, 2008, 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]
SQL Server 2005 Integration With Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies
White Papers Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP2 introduced tight integration between SQL Server Reporting Services and Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies to provide a single-user environment with which to manage and execute reports.
[April 3, 2008, 1:02]
TechNet Webcast: SQL Server 2005 for the IT Professional (Part 6 of 11): New Application Design Patterns for Scalability and Availability and the Operational Implications of Service Broker (Level 200)
White Papers SQL Service Broker is an integral part of the database in Microsoft SQL Server 2005. Understanding why developers may choose to use this is one part of the picture, but some internal SQL Server features use it as well.
[June 30, 2008, 1:01]
TechNet Webcast: SQL Server 2005 Series (Part 9 of 10): High Availability (Level 200)
White Papers Database mirroring is a new technology in SQL Server 2005 that provides very fast, automatic failover to a standby system. This webcast examines this new enhancement in detail, and will show you how to configure and use it.
[June 22, 2005, 0:00]
Technical Comparison of Oracle Database 10g Vs. SQL Server 2005: Focus on Performance
White Papers This paper summarizes the main technical differences between Oracle Database 10g Release 2, the latest version of Oracle Database, and SQL Server 2005, the new release of Microsoft's SQL Server product, focusing on the major techniques commonly...
[March 3, 2006, 0:01]
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 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]
MSDN Webcast: SQL Server 2005 Essentials (Part 08 of 14): The XML Data Type (Level 200)
White Papers This eighth webcast of a 14-part series examines how to use the XML data type in Microsoft SQL Server 2005. A new type of data has gained popularity in recent years, XML has evolved from a simple data transfer format to a data storage format that...
[December 31, 2008, 0:00]
Technical Comparison of Oracle Database Vs. SQL Server 2000: Focus on Performance
White Papers This paper describes the technical differences between Oracle Database 10g Release 2, the latest version of Oracle Database, and SQL Server 2000 that explain Oracle Database's superior performance in both benchmarks as well as real customer...
[August 4, 2005, 6:00]
Microsoft reveals 'Kilimanjaro', SQL Server plans
News Microsoft said that the next version of its SQL Server database — to be called SQL Server 2008 R2 — will work with up to 256 logical processors as well as add a set of business intelligence capabilities previously known as 'Kilimanjaro'.
[May 12, 2009, 12:00]
Amazon 'cloud' to offer Windows, SQL Server options
News Amazon said on Wednesday that it plans to offer its cloud-computing customers the option of running Microsoft's Windows Server operating system as well as its SQL Server database. The company said that EC2 running Windows Server or SQL Server will...
[October 2, 2008, 11:10]
TechNet Webcast: SQL Server 2005 Performance Troubleshooting and Tuning (Part 1 of 2) (Level 200)
White Papers This webcast is the first part of a two-part series that focuses on troubleshooting the performance of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database engine. This webcast describes techniques to diagnose some of the CPU and memory resource consumption issues...
[December 31, 2008, 0:00]
