Transcript of SQL Technet Chat

This is a transcript of a recent chat that included our own Brian Knight!

Amazing FUD

How often do you hear FUD either for or against Microsoft? Know what FUD is? Steve Jones recently ran across an article looking at reasons why you don't want Microsoft products in your enterprise, specifically servers. Here's a few comments and a link to the article.

More Ideas About Using SQL-DMO

This article by Andy Warren introduces some additional SQL-DMO methods that are very useful when automating administrative tasks.

myLittleAdmin v2.5 available

myLittleTools.net is pleased to announce the release of its web-based MS SQL and MSDE database administration tool. Several tools have been added, including "BackUp and Restore database" tools, "CSV Import" tool, "Generate INSERT scripts" tool, "Detach/attach database" tool. Several toys have also been added, including the possibility to display database space used with SVG graph, or a new skin.

Overview of Yukon

Latest news on Yukon.

Why the SQL Server Optimizer Uses a Nonclustered Index Instead of a Cl

Interesting info about why the optimizer might choose to use a nonclustered index over a clustered index. Links to two other articles that cover each type of index in more detail.

Review of AdeptSQL

Another product review! Chris put AdeptSQL (a schema comparison and sync product) to work and wrote up the results. This article also includes some feedback from the vendor that is worth reading.

Email and Yukon - What Changes Would You Like?

Microsoft is soliciting input on email functionality in Yukon. Follow the link to complete the survey. You can also discuss it here on the site:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=17739&FORUM_ID=9&CAT_ID=1&Topic_Title=SQL+Mail+and+Yukon%2C+what+do+you+want+to+see%2E%2E%2E&Forum_Title=General

Updated Yukon Info from MS

This page has some newer information on Yukon. Worth looking at!

Overview of 64bit SQL

New Author! This is a great article, seems like it covers almost every question you might have about installing and using the 64 bit version of SQL2K.