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Telvent: The Future of Enterprise Utility Solutions

Posted over 2 years ago

by lonnyeb
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Today's utilities face the challenges of tighter IT budgets, reduced in-house development staff, and the need to quickly deliver business benefits through applications. Utilities also need to adapt to the rapid changes in smart grid technology, the electricity...
Enterprise Applications on Microsoft SQL Server

Benchmark Results: Telvent ArcFM Solution running on SQL Server

Posted over 2 years ago

by lonnyeb
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Telvent, a leading provider of IT solutions and business information services, works with Microsoft to develop integrated solutions that can help utilities better use their distribution assets for maintenance and growth. The companies recently joined...
Enterprise Applications on Microsoft SQL Server

Telvent: For the Smart Grid, smart utilities use SQL Server

Posted over 2 years ago

by Ken Lassesen
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Telvent Designer allows the next generation of infrastructure needed to support modern commerce to be designed. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 supports spatial data -- the locations of items expressed as longitude, latitude. Modern GPS devices can locate items...
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Telvent: The other Grid runs on SQL Server 2008

Posted over 2 years ago

by Ken Lassesen
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Telvent’s ArcFM Enterprise GIS Solution is a complete utility GIS solution covering electric, gas, sewage and water grids. Without the electric grid, grid computing would not happen. Your utility infrastructure is managed more efficiently and effectively...
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Telvent: ArcFM Support for Microsoft Platforms

Posted over 2 years ago

by Ken Lassesen
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I have listed below which Microsoft technologies are supported by Telvent ArcFM with the release of 10.0.1 SP1. Architecture Tier Product Operating System Client IE 6 SP1 IE 7...
Enterprise Applications on Microsoft SQL Server

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...
Enterprise Applications on Microsoft SQL Server

Telvent: When the lights go out, SQL Server is working to turn them back on!

Posted over 2 years ago

by Ken Lassesen
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Telvent’s Responder Outage Management Solution (OMS) reduces outage time for customers from power outages. Outages may result from adverse weather, aging power infrastructure, and energy constraints. Responder OMS significantly improves the dispatch...
Enterprise Applications on Microsoft SQL Server

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...
Enterprise Applications on Microsoft SQL Server

Migrating from Oracle to SQL Server

Posted over 2 years ago

by Ken Lassesen
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[Next Post in Series: Kronos Migration] My first experience with data migration dates from the 1970’s when a firm was moving from a Honeywell Mainframe (64KB of memory, no DASD -- just tape drives) to an IBM 4331 (2 MB of memory and DASD). In...
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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...