Microsoft SQL Server 2008 has hundreds of new and improved features, many of which are specifically designed for large scale independent software vendor (ISV) applications, which need to leverage the power of the underlying database while keeping their code database agnostic. This article presents details of the top 10 features that we believe are most applicable to such applications based on our work with strategic ISV partners. Along with the description of each feature, the main pain-points the feature helps resolve and some of the important limitations that need to be considered are also presented.
SQLAuthority Author Visit – Ahmedabad SQL Server User Group Meeting – November 2008
Ahmedabad SQL Server User Group Meeting was organized on November 29, 2008 at famous C.G. Road in Ahmedabad. We had great response and wonderful back to back technical sessions. The highlight of whole meeting was participation of UG President Jacob Sebastian – SQL MVP from New York. Meeting started with…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – Use of Index and Execution Plan
Previously I wrote article about SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation about Order of Resultset without ORDER BY and I have received tremendous response from my readers by emails and comments. Readers demanded that I should have written little more for the same subject. As I really liked the subject myself…
Read MoreSQLAuthority News – Download RML Utilities for SQL Server
Note:Â Â Download RML Utilities for SQL Server by Microsoft The RML utilities allow you to process SQL Server trace files and view reports showing how SQL Server is performing. For example, you can quickly see: Which application, database or login is using the most resources, and which queries are responsible…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Delete Backup History – Cleanup Backup History
SQL Server stores history of all the taken backup forever. History of all the backup is stored in msdb database. Many times older history is no more required. Following Stored Procedure can be executed with parameter which takes days of history to keep. In following example 30 is passed to…
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SQL SERVER – Check Database Integrity for All Databases of Server – DBCC CHECKDB
Today we will see quick script which will check integrity of all the databases of SQL Server. We will learn about DBCC CHECKDB in this blog post.Â
SQLAuthority News – 5 Millions Visitors – 2 Anniversary – Authors Note on Economy Slow Down and Job Opportunity – SQL Server
I just received the following screen shot from one of the regular readers of the SQLAuthority.com blog. He pointed out important milestone for our blog. We have crossed 5 million visitors. In less than 2 years SQLAuthority.com blog has been visited by 5 million visitors. I even missed the anniversary our blog. On November 1st, 2008 SQLAuthority.com has completed 2 years of its existence and now continuing in 3rd year.