Understanding the Hazards that Zap your Hardware Resources! This webcast will explore the challenges around maintaining optimal performance in a SQL Server environment while keeping downtime to a minimum. We’ll discuss methodologies you can take and use to administer your environment efficiently, and offer solutions to easily view server resources and anticipate growth. > Register Now > 12/11/2008 at 12:00pm […]

Featured Article(s) SQL Server 2005 Temporary Tables Optimization Tips Here are some helpful tips to optimize using SQL Server 2005 temporary tables. SQL Server Consolidation – Have You Completed a Project or Two? More and more I’m getting requests from people about best experiences/practices for SQL Server consolidation. Many are consolidating because they have a better understanding of the server […]

The Future Approach of Databases… What’s Your Take? As I was reading this article about database technologies and, while it doesn’t address it specifically, it got me thinking. I know, I know. But what I was thinking about was how data will be handled "in the future." You know of relational databases, you know of Google’s approach and even columnar […]

Featured Article(s) New Features and Improvements in ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 (Part I) There have been a lot of new enhancements to ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. The new features added to ASP.NET and Visual Studio makes web development improved and easy. This series of articles discusses these new features and enhancements in ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual […]

Headed Into the Holidays in the U.S. Here in the U.S. we’re headed to another one of those "milestone" holidays – Thanksgiving. "Milestone" because it’s a good time to stop and think about what you’ve done and all you’ve accomplished since last Thanksgiving. Have you had a chance to get those disaster recovery plans in place? That optimization project completed? […]

Pretty Cool – Sorting/Processing PB of Data Google has been working on parallel processing (no surprise there; they have one of the msot well-known parallel processing environments going…) – to the point where they’re processing Petabytes (1000 TB) of data, in record time. The whole parallel processing approach holds great promise, especially as things start to share environments and processing […]

Manage Space and Maximize Your Hardware Resources with Capacity Manager Todays SQL Server environments are growing faster and are more essential to your organization than ever before. But tight IT budgets mean you’ve got to use your resources to manage your environment as efficiently as possible. What if you had a powerful tool for effectively controlling disk space, growth rates […]

Featured Article(s) Why Use Foreign keys and Referential Integrity Why would you implement referential integrity? Is it beneficial to implement it all the time? When to make the most of it in your applications. Would You Be Interested in Participating in the April vConference? We’d love to hear from you – bright lights, stardom, great opportunities to reach 1000’s of […]

Webcast – Register Now Manage Space and Maximize Your Hardware Resources with Capacity Manager Todays SQL Server environments are growing faster and are more essential to your organization than ever before. But tight IT budgets mean you’ve got to use your resources to manage your environment as efficiently as possible. What if you had a powerful tool for effectively controlling […]

Featured Article(s) SQL Server 2005 Linked Servers Optimization Tips Here you can find some useful tips to use SQL Server 2005 linked servers. Change, Updates and Proactive Review of SQL Server Installations, Applications David wrote in with some feedback on the question of proactive review – I think probably this approach applies to a huge number of SSWUG readers. I […]