Describes the gains experienced in my environment by impleenting AWE.  Read more...

You’re desperately trying to get things done but it’s just not happening for you. I’m going to let you in on a little secret, you’re doing it wrong!  Read more...

This May brings SQL Server experts to your locality; full day seminars in Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and London. Overview sessions from Microsoft in the morning, Deep Dive sessions in the afternoon from SQL Server MVP's and evening community events.  Read more...

Arshad Ali discusses the details of creating reports with indicators and gauges in SQL Server 2008 and walks you through designing a one tablix report with two levels of grouping.  Read more...

In this article we are going to look two new enhancements: the Insert snippet menu option and the surround with option.  Read more...

Join us on May 22, 4:00GMT to learn how to include verification as a part of your backup and recovery strategy with Grant Fritchey.  Read more...

On Thursday May 17th 12PM noon Central, Mike Fal will discuss "SQL Server's table partitioning gives the DBA tools to manage this beast and support very large tables in a way where index management and data retrieval..."  Read more...

Shawn McGehee discusses partial backups, how they're used, and how to avoid potential problems when restoring from a partial backup.  Read more...

Building a Stock Price Correlation Matrix Using TVPs, a CROSS JOIN and the PIVOT Function  Read more...

Snapshot isolation levels improve performance but there are some things to take into consideration when using this feature. Arshad Ali discusses what snapshot isolation levels are, their variants, and why and when we should use them.  Read more...