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SQL Server Compare
Downloads SQL Server Compare is an easy-to-use tool that compares 2 SQL Server database schemas and list differences. You can view or save SQL scripts of differing objects. Compares tables, stored procedures, indexes, triggers, users, views and record counts.
[June 5, 2002, 8:12]
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 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]
SQL Server gets Service Pack 2
News Microsoft has released a second free service pack for its popular SQL Server 2005 database application. SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 — a large, recommended bundle of tweaks — aims to make the database software compatible with Microsoft's new...
[February 21, 2007, 8:21]
SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition (64-bit): Advantages of a 64-Bit Environment
White Papers Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) offers dramatic improvements in memory availability and parallel processing performance compared with SQL Server software running in a 32-bit environment.
[November 13, 2004, 2:00]
SQL Server 2005 Improves Scalability, Performance of Risk-Management Solution
White Papers To capitalize on scalability and performance enhancements in SQL Server 2005, NetEconomy decided to incorporate it as its internal database. NetEconomy delivers real-time enterprise software solutions to financial institutions for monitoring...
[February 23, 2007, 0:00]
SQL Server Consolidation on the 64-Bit Platform: Lessons Learned
White Papers There are many considerations that need to be evaluated when determining how to approach the consolidation of many SQL Server databases on a single server. But on the 64-bit platform, the decision to use multiple instances of SQL Server is more a...
[April 1, 2008, 7:36]
SQL Server Yukon - New Possibility
White Papers Yukon gives the developers the power of integrating the .NET Framework into SQL Server and the author thinks it needs some explanation. Imagine that a person can use his favorite .NET language (like VB.NET or C#) to write database objects (triggers...
[November 23, 2006, 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, 6:45]
TechNet Webcast: SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services: Management and Configuration (Level 300)
White Papers This webcast explains how Reporting Services integrates with the new SQL Server Management Studio and shows a demonstration of the new Reporting Services configuration tool. It also covers how to manage a multi-server, scale-out environment and how...
[February 28, 2009, 0:25]
Exclusive: Latest Windows Vista, Longhorn Server, WinFS, SQL Server 2005 Timelines Revealed
White Papers The author has come across the release schedules for Windows Vista (codenamed "Longhorn"), WinFS, and SQL Server 2005 (codenamed "Yukon"). According to internal Microsoft documentation, the software giant is planning an aggressive release schedule...
[December 6, 2006, 0:00]
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]
MSDN Webcast: SQL Server MasterClass: User-Defined Types (Level 200)
White Papers Microsoft SQL Server provides the database administrator and the developer with a lot of functionality out of the box. In SQL Server 2005, there is a new feature that helps to define new data types for the applications.
[April 8, 2009, 1:42]
TechNet Webcast: SQL Server 2008 (Part 1 of 3): High-Performance Data Warehousing (Level 300)
White Papers The attendee will learn how to incorporate the new features in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 to provide a high-performance data warehouse that can scale to larger number of users and growing volumes of data.
[March 24, 2008, 0:02]
SQL Server Data Mining: Plug-In Algorithms
White Papers This paper describes how SQL Server 2005 Data Mining allows aggregation directly at the algorithm level. Although this restricts what the third-party algorithm developer can support in terms of language and data types, it frees the developer from...
[March 7, 2005, 2:00]
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]
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 2005 for the IT Professional (Part 10 of 11): Recovering From Human Error (Level 200)
White Papers Microsoft SQL Server 2005 provides a variety of new features to help deal with the possibility of human error with preventative techniques, investigative techniques, and recovery techniques. This webcast looks at Data Definition Language (DDL...
[May 19, 2009, 1:19]
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 Full-Text Search: Internals and Enhancements
White Papers The full-text search feature of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 delivers enterprise search functionality integrated into the database. Significant enhancements in the areas of performance, manageability, and functionality deliver best-of-breed search...
[March 7, 2005, 2:00]
