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Thursday, September 24, 2009 4:38 PM

Scottish SQL Server User Group Meeting - Oct 8th

I have the great pleasure of speaking at the next Scottish SQL Server User Group meeting being held in Mocrosoft's Edinburgh ofice on Thursday the 8th of October. Full details can be found on the UK User Group site . My talk will focus on some of the
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Sunday, April 12, 2009 9:26 PM

Troubleshooting SQL Server 2008 Performance Problems

A new whitepaper covering the topic of performance troubleshooting in SQL Server 2008 has now been released. You can download the paper from the following link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd672789.aspx
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Sunday, March 15, 2009 11:12 PM

SQL Server 2005 Multi-Site Clustering with Windows Server 2008

I was working recently with a customer who was looking to deploy a SQL Server 2005 cluster across 2 geographically dispersed sites using Windows Server 2008. They were looking to utilise the new clustering improvements in Windows Server 2008 to build
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009 2:20 PM

Performance Dashboard Reports for SQL Server 2008

During a recent visit to Seattle for a Microsoft conference, I learned from my colleague Michael Thomassy that it's possible to run the SQL Server 2005 Performance Dashboard reports on SQL Server 2008, with a couple of slight modifications. There is a
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Attachment(s): PerfDashboardReports.zip
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 6:39 AM

CU #3 for SQL Server 2008 Released

On January 19, 2009 Microsoft shipped the Third Cumulative Update for SQL Server 2008 RTM. This CU represents 36 Resolved Issues and 30 Unique Customer Requests. More details and download details can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960484/en-u
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008 10:11 AM

SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Technical Reference Guide Released

The SQL Server 2008 Technical Reference Guide has just been released, covering the essential steps and best practices to upgrade existing 2000 and 2005 instances to 2008. There is also a list of other upgrade resources available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc936623.aspx
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:09 AM

SQL Server 2008 Cumulative Update #2 Released

Cumulative Update package 2 has now been released for SQL Server 2008. See the following KB article for full details: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958186/en-us
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Thursday, November 06, 2008 11:53 PM

Scottish Area SQL Server User Group

I'm happy to announce that the next Scottish SQL Server User Group will be hosted at Microsoft Edinburgh on the evening of the 13th November. Full details of the agenda and how to register can be found on the UK SQL Server User Group site here: http://sqlserverfaq.com/events/144/Scottish-Area-SQL-Server-User-Group-Jammin-SQL-Server-2008.aspx
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008 4:48 PM

Updated: Support Policy for SQL Server on Virtualised Platforms

The support policy for SQL Server running on virtualised platforms has now been updated to include support for SQL Server 2005 running on Hyper-V http://support.microsoft.com/?id=956893 Microsoft provides technical support for SQL Server 2005 and for
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 7:10 PM

Support Policy for SQL Server on Hyper-V

Microsoft have now published the support policy for running SQL Server on Hyper-V. There is support for SQL Server 2008 initially, with plans to include SQL Server 2005 at a later date. http://support.microsoft.com/?id=956893
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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.
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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
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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
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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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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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