Featured Article(s) 5 Things… to know about full text indexing (Stephen Wynkoop) Here are 5 different things you will want to keep in mind as you work with Full Text Indexing and SQL Server. Announcement – New Kalen Delaney Workshops In just a couple of weeks, Kalen’s next workshop will be happening. Kalen has an extraordinary reputation for deep, specific […]

Featured Article(s) Troubleshooting SQL Server 2008 Bulk Copy Problems In this article, Alexander Chigrik explains some problems that you can have when you work with SQL Server 2008 bulk copy. He also tells how you can resolve these problems. Featured Scripts UDF – Calc distance This UDF calculates the distance between two locations by passing in the latitude and longitude […]

New SQL Server Show Posted SelectViews: SQL Server News, Ben Hoelting guest segment, facebook, events…Jeff Garbus guest segment, newsletter discussions and a lot more! [Watch the show here] Cloud Computing – a Major Directional Goal It’s clear from TechEd that Microsoft and many others are picking cloud computing and all that that means as a clear direction for IT. We’ve […]

Featured Article(s) Easy guide to creating a data-tier applications using Visual Studio 2010 Describes easy steps in creating and deploying a data-tier application using Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate. Do You Actively Work to Limit Database Platforms In Use? There is much talk about different platforms, different approaches to databases and how we build applications to store and manage data. This […]

Thoughts for the Weekend and TechEd I wanted to return to my thoughts earlier this week about questions, our data and what types of things we have probably in the future in terms of needs for the data. That’s a mouthful, I know. As we head into TechEd, see all the new gadgets, hear about the new versions of software […]

Featured Script dba3_Alter_ColumnInTable_Demo Demo: Alter a Column in an existing table using the Alter Table Statement… (read more) Did You See This? CLR-Based Tools… Very interesting tools and functions for SQL Server. These folks have released a set of CLR function libraries to help you with finance, statistics, math and string functions for SQL Server. Very cool way to address […]

Webcast: Best practices for Analysis Services administration This session takes you on a end-to-end tour of management features for Analysis Services. Along the way, you’ll learn important best practices direct from the product team about how to configure, optimize and manage your Analysis Server. We expect this to be an essential session for new and experienced Analysis Services administrators alike. […]

How Do We Handle the Volume? I read Seth Godin’s blog pretty regularly (me and about a billion other people) and his recent post about volumes of information really struck a nerve. You can read the short post here. The gist of the post is that the incredibly increasing volume of information simply isn’t going to be slowing down any […]

A Holiday Weekend (in the US)… Are You Prepared? Holiday weekends are nice – and you should be able to truly enjoy it by being on call, but being prepared. One of the more complex things to do when setting up your systems is to NOT be the single point of failure – the bottleneck in getting things done or […]

Featured Script Collect Free Disk Space This Procesdure will capture the free space on each drive in a table. Best used scheduled to run once per day then you can us… (read more) Today is the Last Day to Register – SharePoint Expo Our SharePoint expo is tomorrow – we’ll have some excellent sessions, 4 in total, all about truly […]