Rick Heiges has put together an interesting event coming up on Sep 2, 2009 called 24 Hours of PASS. As...

Data Compression: Strategy, Capacity Planning and Best Practices

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Microsoft MSDN

Data Compression

The data compression feature in SQL Server 2008 helps compress the data inside a database, and it can help reduce the size of the database. Apart from the space savings, data compression provides another benefit: Because compressed data is stored in fewer pages, queries need to read fewer pages from the disk, thereby improving the performance of I/O intensive workloads. However, extra CPU resources are required on the database server to compress and decompress the data, while data is exchanged with the application. Therefore, it is important to understand the workload characteristics when deciding which tables to compress.

Using INSTEAD OF triggers in SQL Server for DML operations

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Triggers

In SQL Server 2000 and onwards there are INSTEAD OF triggers that can be used to carry out such tasks. Although these types of triggers can be used in a number of scenarios their primary function is to perform DML operations through such views. This tip shows how to use INSTEAD OF triggers to handle these DML operations on views.

Backup to the Cloud - No Excuses

by Brad McGehee

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

With the proliferation of high availability & specialist online Backup companies, do we really have any excuses left to NOT have an offsite backup location, even if it is in the Cloud? Brad things not...

Database Documentation Using Red Gate's SQLDoc

by David Poole

SQLServerCentral.com

Product and Book Reviews

Longtime author David Poole has written an excellent article about using SQLDoc, from Red Gate Software. Learn how you can document your own databases in this sponsored article.