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Friday, June 20, 2008 5:50 PM

SQL Server 2008 - Performance Studio

I've been looking at this new feature of SQL Server 2008 in order to demo it to customers, and I have to say it's pretty cool ! Along with Resource Governor and compression, it's one of my favourite new features and a good reason to consider an upgrade.
Posted by robcarrol | 8 Comments
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 8:02 AM

Indexing Strategies

I attended a SQL Server User Group meeting earlier this year and heard a presentation about favourite DMV's. Mentioned in the discussion was sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats and that got me thinking about indexing strategies. I have been involved in performance
Posted by robcarrol | 1 Comments
Thursday, June 12, 2008 12:25 PM

SQL Server 2005 Performance Dashboard

I've had one or two requests recently to set up the Performance Dashboard reports on SQL Server so I've created this blog post to step through the process. Firstly, the Performance Dashboard was created to allow customers and support engineers to monitor
Posted by robcarrol | 2 Comments
Tuesday, June 10, 2008 9:26 AM

SQL Server 2008 RC0 Available

The release of SQL Server 2008 has hit another milestone with the news that Release Candidate 0 (RC0) has been made available for public download this morning. This was initially released to Technet Plus and MSDN subscribers last Friday. It is expected
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:16 AM

OpsDB SQL Server Automation Tools Released

A great set of SQL Server automation tools has just been released by Microsoft onto the SQL Server Community Worldwide site... http://sqlcommunity.com/ScriptsTools/OpsDBOperationsDatabaseforSQLServer/tabid/275/language/en-US/Default.aspx These are excellent
Posted by robcarrol | 0 Comments
Tuesday, June 03, 2008 10:49 PM

June SQL Technical Rollup Mail

The June SQL Server Technical Rollup Mail has now been released. Check it out for some great SQL Server information and resources... http://blogs.technet.com/trm/archive/2008/06/01/june-2008-technical-rollup-mail-sql.aspx
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Monday, June 02, 2008 12:10 AM

Sysinternals Live Beta Launched

Microsoft has launched the Sysinternals Live beta, allowing execution of Sysinternals tools directly from the web. Enter a tool’s Sysinternals Live path into Windows Explorer or a command prompt as \\live.sysinternals.com\tools\<toolname> or view
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