With SQL Server 2008's new Data Collection feature and the Management Data Warehouse (MDW), came three system Data Collection sets. This article covers the different data collection standard reports that have been provided to display information related to the statistics collected by the system data collections.
2008-11-11
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When Microsoft introduced GIS into SQL Server with SQL Server 2008, it opened up a whole range of new applications that were previously impossible to do with SQL Server. So what can you do with GIS Data? We asked an expert!
2008-11-04
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Microsoft updates SQL Server on a pretty regular basis. Its newest version, SQL Server 2008, includes some new features not found in older versions. Here's a list of some of them
2008-11-03
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Brad continues his helicopter-level view of the most important new features of SQL Server 2008 with a look at the new data types, their use and their significance.
2008-10-31
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This article demonstrates the performance improvements that can be achieved using Filtered Indexes in SQL server 2008
2008-10-22
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New author Nigel Maneffa brings us a look at SQL Server 2008 and its new features, trying to decide if it's worth the upgrade.
2009-12-18 (first published: 2008-10-21)
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Continuing on with his series on SQL Server 2008, MVP Jacob Sebastian brings us a look at the debugger, which has returned in SQL Server 2008.
2008-10-15
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2008-10-08
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Learn how to apply the new tracing functionality in Microsoft data access technologies such as ADO.NET 2.0, MDAC 2.82, SQL Server Native Client, and the JDBC driver; and in the SQL Server network protocols and the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database engine. You can also download associated sample code for this article.
2008-10-03
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2008-09-29
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