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Solution Brief on Benchmark Results: SQL Server 2008 R2 Provides Enterprise-Class Performance and Scalability for SunGard: This benchmark confirms that SQL Server 2008 R2 is the right database platform for Front Arena customers who want performance, scalability, and value.

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White Paper: SQL Server 2008 R2 Provides Enterprise-Class Performance and Scalability for SunGard Front Arena

Posted over 1 year ago

by ISV Apps on SQL
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Today's investors demand a wider variety of asset classes, more complex financial instruments, and a broader geographical range of products than ever before. SunGard meets these demands with Front Arena, an integrated cross-asset platform for sales, trading...
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Solution Brief on Benchmark Results: SQL Server 2008 R2 Provides Enterprise-Class Performance and Scalability for SunGard

Posted over 2 years ago

by lonnyeb
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SunGard, the largest privately held business software and IT services company, provides software solutions for many industry verticals. For the financial sector, SunGard offers Front Arena, an integrated cross-asset platform for sales, trading and risk...
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Migration: The value gained moving from Sybase to SQL Server 2008R2

Posted over 2 years ago

by Ken Lassesen
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[DB2 Migration Value] [ Oracle Migration Value ] In the early 1990's I was a consultant to Microsoft when the first alphas of SQL Server were tested as a replacement for Sybase on internal production systems. Those days were sweet because we were working...
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Fundamentals: Improving Insert and Update Performance by Dropping Unused Indexes

Posted over 2 years ago

by Ken Lassesen
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[Prior Post in Series] [Next Post in Series] In my prior posts, I looked at adding indexes with Database Engine Tuning Advisor. In this post, I will look at the other side of the coin and delete indexes that are unused or that cost more resources than...
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Fundamentals: Running Database Engine Tuning Advisor and Selecting Indexes

Posted over 2 years ago

by Ken Lassesen
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[Prior Post in Series] [Next Post in Series] In my last post Fundamentals: Creating a Workload by Using a Trace Log , I illustrated how to create a workload. In this post, I will look at the complimentary step, using the log as input to the Database...
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Fundamentals: Creating a Workload by Using a Trace Log

Posted over 2 years ago

by Ken Lassesen
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[Next Post in Series] This is the kick-off post of a regular Friday series of posts, " Basic Skills for SQL Server ISV Administrators ". I have found that ISV Administrators are often Professional Engineers (P.E.) -- rich in business knowledge and...
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Best Practices Analyzer for ISV SQL Servers to protect your company’s property

Posted over 2 years ago

by Ken Lassesen
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The intellectual property(IP) or other valuable information may be stored on SQL Server in your ISV product. Its value is more than credit card records (credit cards can be cancelled if lost, IP can’t). It may be the equivalent of a state secret...
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Right sizing ISV installations for the best bang for the buck!

Posted over 2 years ago

by SQL Server ISV
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Author: This article is written by our contributing author Ken Lassesen. His bio can be found here . Recently I have seen two configurations that caused me to shake my head in disbelief. In reality, the problem is the classic one of people...