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New Show: SQLonCall – Staying on Top as a DBA
Continuing Education for DBAs. How do you know where to spend time and resources? What types of things can you do to help out the DBA team as they need to stay on top of technologies?

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Other Video Programs/Shows available:
[Watch] SelectViews – Accidental DBAs, 60-second tip of the day, More
[Watch] SelectViews – Special – SQL Server 2005 Jobs – How-To, When, Where, Why – Demos

3D Visualization of Your SQL Server Performance
If a picture is worth 1000 words, what’s a great 3D look at your performance worth? By showing the information about what’s happening with your servers more clearly, you can make better decisions about actions to take. Look at poor end-user response times, CPU utilization and even what’s happening to cause table scans. Drill down into the SQL statements that are running while issues are occurring. Great tools and visualization of what’s happening. Check it out here.

Featured Article(s)
Troubleshooting SQL Server 2005 full-text search
In this article, Alexander Chigrik explains some problems you can have with SQL Server 2005 full-text search.

Featured White Paper(s)

SQL Server 2005 – Major New Features
This white paper highlights the new features of SQL Server 2005, including the user interface and the architecture changes, a… (read more)

Windows PowerShell: Why Developers Should Care
Windows PowerShell is Microsoft’s next generation scripting and shell tool. Find out more about this tool and why its importa… (read more)