Friday, January 07, 2005 - 9:30 - 10:30 AM Pacific Time Bryan Von Axelson , TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation There are a number of barriers to availability, and only some of these are addressable by DBMS technology. This first part of a two-part...

Friday, January 07, 2005 - 8:00 AM -9:00 AM PT Pacific Time Anu Chawla and Frank Mcbath, TechnologySpecialist and Technologist, Microsoft Have you realized the total cost of ownership (TCO) you expected on your Siebel CRM investment? It is more than likely...

Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 8:00 - 9:30 AM Pacific Time Bryan Von Axelson , TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is the next version of the SQL Server product family. This new edition offers a number of enhancements to...

After some positive comments arising from my High Availability post I’ve decided to Blog on DR earlier than I had intended. I hadn’t intended to blog on DR for a while because it’s a difficult subject and I was hoping it might get easier if I left it...

SQL Server 2000 has to live with the legacy that it was once called SQL Server 6.5 – if a database could have a pain in the neck this would be SQL Server’s. When Microsoft completely rewrote Microsoft Mail it gave it a new name, Exchange; thus everyone...

Security – I find it very hard to get enthusiastic about security, after all it doesn’t visibly do anything; I’d far rather solve the world’s problems than avoid them. However this is such an important topic I thought I should blog on the topic sooner...

Rather than write endless amounts here I’m just going to describe some useful pointers that you can reference. The first reference is to failover clusters, I mention this one first as it dives head on into that word ‘Cluster’. This word is a pain as it...

Last week, up in Edinburgh, I did a Technet evening gig on Reporting Services and was shocked when a customer came up to me afterwards and told me he hadn’t been able to download Reporting Services from the Microsoft website even though he was a card...

SQL Server Accelerator for Business Intelligence (SSABI) is one of the best and most exciting tools I've ever used. Alas too many people haven't heard about it and sometimes people underestimate it because of its appearance – an Excel spreadsheet. It...

Hello, my name is Matthew Stephen, I work as a Microsoft SQL Server Evangelist, based in Reading UK. I started working for Microsoft in early '93 as a PSS support Engineer. I spent many happy years supporting SQL Server and then, four years ago, moved...