With SQL Server 2008, you will have new built-in support for location based data types and supporting geospatial features. Next you will learn how these new data types work.
2009-10-13
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In this white paper we discuss two of the new features in SQL Server 2008, Star Join and Few-Outer-Row optimizations. We test the performance of SQL Server 2008 on a set of complex data warehouse queries designed to highlight the effect of these two features and observed a significant performance gain over SQL Server 2005 (without these two features).
2009-09-10
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The fifth installment of Arshad Ali's series examines the spatial data types in SQL Server 2008. These new types allow the use of geospatial data in SQL Server applications.
2009-08-31
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In the fourth installment that looks at T-SQL changes for SQL Server 2008, Ashad Ali examines how the Filestream data type works.
2010-03-26 (first published: 2009-08-28)
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The Enterprise Policy Management (EPM) Framework leverages and extends the new Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Policy-Based Management feature across an entire SQL Server enterprise, including down-level instances of SQL Server such as SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005.
2009-08-28
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A Stored Procedure for your tools database. It lists uncompressed tables and indexes and also generates the SQL to compress them.
2010-12-22 (first published: 2009-08-27)
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Continuing with his series on T-SQL enhancements in SQL Server 2008, Arshad Ali brings us a look at the HierarchyID and Large UDTs.
2010-03-19 (first published: 2009-08-27)
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Various methods of using the "For Attach" clause exist to overcome the limitations that face us when using sp_attach_db and sp_attach_single_file_db. The first installment illustrates the use of the "Create Database" statement for the "For Attach" and "for ATTACH_REBUILD_LOG" arguments, for a single .MDF file and single .LDF file.
2009-08-24
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An overview of what's involved in the two exams you need to pass to become a Microsoft IT Professional in SQL Server 2008.
2009-08-21
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This guide provides an in-depth look at SQL Server 2008, with information on upgrading, overviews of the most important new features, and details on future releases.
2009-07-28
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