I have been testing SQL Server 2008 and I must admit, I’ve been impressed with the new features. I’ve written about some of the new functionality in past blog entries. One feature that I had not ...

Read on for more detail on SQL Server Management Studio and management improvements, Resource Governor, Change Data Capture and nonlogged inserts, Data Compression, Backup Compression, index ...

SQL Server 2008, aka “Katmai,” gives SQL Server shops plenty of reasons to get excited. The best SQL Server release to date, it sports more nice new features than you can count, and the improvements ...

When I meet SQL Server professionals, I am always interested to find out if they have deployed the latest version of SQL Server into production yet, if they are using Enterprise Edition, and, if so, ...

Microsoft has made some big promises for SQL Server 2008, a major update of its enterprise database product. No precise date has yet been announced for the launch, but the new features have caught the ...

Database troubleshooting is not for the faint of heart, especially when it comes to troubleshooting locking and blocking problems. Sometimes the elephant in the room is actually a rhino, a problem ...