Technical RollUp : SQL

December 2009 – Technology Rollup Mail – SQL Server

conuktrm — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:41:00 GMT

Downloads

Other

Sync Framework Power Pack for SQL Azure

This release features the SQL Azure provider for Microsoft Sync Framework, a plug-in for Visual Studio 2008 Professional SP1 and the tool SQL Azure Data Sync Tool for SQL Server, all of which simplify using Sync Framework and SQL Azure together.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=bce4ad61-5b76-4101-8311-e928e7250b9a

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 November Community Technology Preview Feature Pack

The Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Feature Pack is a collection of stand-alone packages which provide additional value for SQL Server 2008 R2.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=020ee0d5-bce4-4a45-9d64-b0c49c8831e5

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 November Community Technology Preview End User License Agreements

The Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 End User License Agreements provide the legal terms and conditions for using the SQL Server 2008 R2 November Community Technology Preview core software

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=80bb26aa-3fbd-483b-ac36-006d496ee58a

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 November CTP StreamInsight Refresh

Microsoft® SQL Server® StreamInsight is Microsoft’s new Complex Event Processing technology to help businesses derive better insights by correlating event streams from multiple sources with near-zero latency.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=01c664e4-1c98-4fc8-93ee-08cc039503c1

Sync Framework Power Pack for SQL Azure

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=bce4ad61-5b76-4101-8311-e928e7250b9a

SQL 2005

SQL Server 2008 R2 Books Online CTP November 2009

Download the a community technology preview (CTP) release version of the documentation and tutorials for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=c18bad82-0e5f-4e82-812b-5b23e5d52b9c

SQL 2008

Microsoft SQL Server Protocol Documentation

The Microsoft SQL Server protocol documentation provides technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols that are implemented and used in Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=91ef5106-944a-41e1-b3a0-5bd3f2356f32

SQL Server 2008 R2 Books Online CTP November 2009

Download the a community technology preview (CTP) release version of the documentation and tutorials for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=c18bad82-0e5f-4e82-812b-5b23e5d52b9c

IT Compliance Management Series

The IT Compliance Management Series is intended for IT managers, professionals, and partners who must configure Microsoft products to address specific IT governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) requirements. Successful implementation of the recommendations in this series will allow organizations to shift the enforcement and management of IT GRC requirements onto underlying Microsoft technologies.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=bd930882-0d39-4900-9a79-b91f213ed15d

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Books Online (July 2009)

Download the documentation and tutorials for Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=765433f7-0983-4d7a-b628-0a98145bcb97

Events/Webcasts

MSDN Webcast: Overview of SQL Server StreamInsight (Level 200)

Wednesday, December 02, 2009 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

In this webcast, we explore how you can build event-driven applications to gain insight from high data rate event stream sources with very low latency. We provide an overview of the new Microsoft platform for complex event processing (CEP) called Microsoft SQL Server StreamInsight, and then we discuss the following scenarios: formulating declarative queries to express powerful analytics over event streams, programming against the object model of the CEP engine, and writing adapters for event stream data sources. Attendees learn how familiar development tools such as Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft .NET, C#, and Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) can be used for developing their event-driven applications.

Presenter: Torsten Grabs, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation

View other sessions from: SQL Server 2008: Develop Strong Database Applications

If you have questions or feedback, contact us.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032432286&culture=en-US

Cloud Computing Webcast Series - 'Why Microsoft has the best cloud computing story.'

Wednesday, December 09, 2009 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Join us for a live webcast to hear 'Why Microsoft has the best cloud computing story'!

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032433504&culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: Thrive Live! SQL Server Locking and Blocking Made Simple (Level 200)

Monday, December 07, 2009 9:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

A good working knowledge of how Microsoft SQL Server makes use of locking and transaction isolation levels can help you greatly improve an application's performance. In this webcast, we explore the SQL Server locking methodology and share techniques for enhancing query response times.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032432983&culture=en-US

MSDN Webcast: SQL Server 2008 R2 Support for Up to 256 Logical Processors (Level 200)

Wednesday, December 09, 2009 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 introduces support for greater than 64 logical processors, supporting up to 256 logical processors on the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system. In this webcast, we discuss the importance of being able to scale to 256 logical processors, examine the methodology Microsoft employed to validate performance and scalability of SQL Server 2008 R2, and provide details on SQL Server scalability tests and the hardware platforms the tests ran on. We also discuss architectural innovations that made it possible for SQL Server 2008 R2 to scale beyond 64 logical processors and share SQL Server best practices.

Presenters: Madhan Arumugam, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation and Fabricio Voznika, Senior Software Development Engineer, Microsoft Corporation

Madhan Arumugam is a program manager on the SQL Server Engine team at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, where his responsibilities currently cover base diagnostic and execution infrastructure technologies like SQL Server Operating System (SQLOS). Before joining Microsoft, Madhan worked as a software engineer at Intel developing functional models for multi-core cache coherency protocols and other interconnects.

Fabricio Voznika is a developer on the Microsoft SQL Server team where he currently works with synchronization primitives, scheduling, and eventing infrastructure. Prior to Microsoft, he worked for Ericson, designing a network performance monitor in Berkeley, California, and he worked for Objective Solutions in Curitiba, Brazil. Fabricio holds a master's degree from the University of Washington and a bachelor's degree in computer science from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico (PUC-PR).

View other sessions from:

SQL Server 2008: Develop Strong Database Applications

If you have questions or feedback, contact us.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032433593&culture=en-US

Cloud Computing Webcast Series - 'The Business Value of Online Services'

Monday, December 14, 2009 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Join us for a live webcast to discuss 'The Business Value of Online Services'!

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032433505&culture=en-US

New KB's

SQL 2000

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2000 EN: An assertion or Msg 7987 may occur when an operation is performed on an instance of SQL Server (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/828337/EN-US

SQL 2005

SQL Svr Compact Edtn 2005 EN: Description of the various build versions of SQL Server Compact Edition (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950550/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 EN: How to change the network IP addresses of SQL Server failover cluster instances (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244980/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you try to open a file attachment in a message that is generated by the sp_send_dbmail procedure in SQL Server 2005: "This file is not in a recognizable format" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924345/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: You cannot start the SQL Server Agent service of a failover cluster of SQL Server 2005 if the build of SQL Server is 3179 or a later build (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943525/EN-US

SQL 2008

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: How to update or slipstream an installation of SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955392/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: Error message when you try to use SQL Server Analysis Services as a data source for a data-driven subscription in SQL Server 2008 Report Manager: "An error occurred while connecting to a data source, or the query is not valid for the data source" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956094/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: FIX: The Date data type may be corrupted when you use the SAP BI Destination component of Microsoft Connector 1.0 for SAP BI in a SQL Server 2008 Integration Services package

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976367/EN-US

SQL Svr Express Edition 2008 AL: FIX: Error message when you install SQL Server 2008 Express edition on a computer that is running the Chinese Traditional version of Windows Vista for Hongkong: “Performance counter registry hive consistency”

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976231/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Setup of SQL Server 2008 fails when the setup binary files are located in a folder whose path is in the 8.3 compatible format

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973357/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you run a SQL Server 2008 Integration Services package that uses a configuration table in SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio: “The connection "<Connection Name>" is not found” (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974559/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The mean and median lines are not shown when you view a report that contains a Boxplot chart in SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975284/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: An assertion failure may occur when you run a query that joins columns on a table with compression enabled in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975719/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Toggled items display incorrectly when you print or export a SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services report

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975756/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: An access violation occurs intermittently during message processing for service broker, and the session may be disconnected in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975772/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The DBCC CHECKFILEGROUP statement does not check a partitioned object if one of the partitions is not presented in the filegroup being checked in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975991/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you export a report that uses the Code39(1:3) font to a .pdf file in SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services: “There was an error processing a page. There was a problem reading this document(135)”

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976359/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A MDX query that involves multiple calculated measures may return an incorrect result in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976391/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message in SQL Server 2008 when you try to transfer data by using a Transfer object that has the WithDependencies property enabled: "Object reference not set to an instance of an object."

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976413/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Full-text search functionality does not work in SQL Server 2008 Express Edition even after you installed SQL Server 2008 CU2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976414/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Different results may be returned when you concurrently run the same query with the RECOMPILE option in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976603/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The SQL Server 2008 agent does not automatically resume running after you upgrade to SQL Server 2008 CU7 or SQL Server 2008 SP1 CU3/CU4 in a stand-alone environment

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976953/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: How to apply a hotfix for SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008 in a transactional replication and database mirroring topology

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977051/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Cascading parameters have incorrect values after you customize the schedule for a new subscription on a SharePoint site of SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977058/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: After you run the merge agent during the initialization of the subscription in SQL Server 2008, the ident_current() function returns a value that is larger than expected

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977109/EN-US

November 2009 - Technical Rollup Mail - SQL Server

conuktrm — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

News

Forrester Research

SQL Server 2008 Ups Pressure On Competitors; Microsoft Boosts Manageability, BI, Performance, Productivity, and Security
For the majority of mission-critical applications today, SQL Server 2008 already has the strongest combination of price/performance, manageability, security, and DBA productivity. The latest version of SQL Server from Microsoft SQL Server 2008 offers hundreds of new DBMS features that boost the productivity of database administrators (DBAs) and developers, improve support for larger databases, and enhance security.

Forrester Research

The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Database Management Systems, Q2 2009
This Forrester Wave assesses more than a dozen firms based primarily on their enterprise open source and closed source database management systems. Forrester named Microsoft a ‘leader’ in the DBMS Wave and states that Microsoft is “The most aggressive DBMS vendor with a strong road map.” In this Wave, Forrester categorizes Leaders as offering “broad set of functionality to support any critical transactional application.”

Gartner, Inc.

Gartner 2006 worldwide RDBMS market share reports highest growth rate in market share for Microsoft SQL Server. With 28% growth in market share, growth is almost twice the nearest competitor at 14.8% growth.

Gartner, Inc.

This Magic Quadrant depicts Gartner's analysis of how data warehouse DBMS software-only vendors measure against specific criteria within the marketplace.

Gartner, Inc.

Microsoft is positioned in Leaders Quadrant for Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 2009.

IDC

SQL Server is the fastest growing Database and Business Intelligence vendor.

IDC

SQL Server ships more units than Oracle and IBM combined.

The OLAP Report

SQL Server is the #1 OLAP Server on the market

Dark Reading

Study: SQL Server Is Safest DB

NGS Software Insight Security Research

Which database is more secure? Oracle vs. Microsoft. Since July 2003 more than 100 critical Oracle database security vulnerabilities have been identified, compared to zero for SQL Server for that period.

Transaction Processing Performance Council

Microsoft SQL Server and Unisys are the first to publish TPC-E benchmark results.

Winter Corporation

SQL Server Manages the World's Largest Databases.

ChannelWeb: CRN Staff

Microsoft SQL Server recognized as Best Seller and Top Growth Best Seller by CRN Magazine.

Other

Technical RollUp

http://blogs.technet.com/trm/default.aspx

Downloads

Other

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 Beta 2 for Windows Desktop

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 Beta 2 is an embedded database that allows developers to build robust applications for Windows desktops and mobile devices. The download contains the files for installing SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 Beta 2 on Windows desktop.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=411ba1c5-ba57-45b6-9148-91bed6e7a9f1

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 Beta 2 for Windows Desktop

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=411ba1c5-ba57-45b6-9148-91bed6e7a9f1

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 Beta 2 for Windows Desktop

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=411ba1c5-ba57-45b6-9148-91bed6e7a9f1

Security Update for SQL Server Reporting Services 2000 Service Pack 2 (KB970899)

A security issue has been identified in the SQL Server Reporting Services 2000 Service Pack 2 that could allow an attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=33554f96-5af7-4683-a537-9db293b67b8d

SQL 2000

Security Update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (KB970895)

A security issue has been identified in the SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 that could allow an attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=d971a262-1dfb-498c-a4f3-59fdc1b85d23

Security Update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (KB970892)

A security issue has been identified in the SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 that could allow an attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=0d878f4b-71e8-4170-9a14-1bce684811ce

Security Update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (KB970896)

A security issue has been identified in the SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 that could allow an attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=76d3d653-e9a0-48bc-afae-d3553f7b9235

Security Update for SQL Server Reporting Services 2000 Service Pack 2 (KB970899)

A security issue has been identified in the SQL Server Reporting Services 2000 Service Pack 2 that could allow an attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=33554f96-5af7-4683-a537-9db293b67b8d

Security Update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (KB970894)

A security issue has been identified in the SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 that could allow an attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=e6f307c1-8b21-406e-9c6f-b1a3a1e9a98f

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 Beta 2 for Windows Desktop

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=411ba1c5-ba57-45b6-9148-91bed6e7a9f1

SQL 2005

How to protect SAP with DPM 2007 sp1

This whitepaper discusses why and how to protect SAP environments running on Microsoft SQL Server with Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 sp1

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=aa704f3e-aee5-418d-a63b-0e467b25b58f

Security Update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (KB970895)

A security issue has been identified in the SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 that could allow an attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=d971a262-1dfb-498c-a4f3-59fdc1b85d23

Security Update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (KB970892)

A security issue has been identified in the SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 that could allow an attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=0d878f4b-71e8-4170-9a14-1bce684811ce

Security Update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (KB970896)

A security issue has been identified in the SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 that could allow an attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=76d3d653-e9a0-48bc-afae-d3553f7b9235

Security Update for SQL Server Reporting Services 2000 Service Pack 2 (KB970899)

A security issue has been identified in the SQL Server Reporting Services 2000 Service Pack 2 that could allow an attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=33554f96-5af7-4683-a537-9db293b67b8d

Security Update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (KB970894)

A security issue has been identified in the SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 that could allow an attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=e6f307c1-8b21-406e-9c6f-b1a3a1e9a98f

SQL Server Reporting Services Add-in for SharePoint Technologies

The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies is a Web download that provides features for running a report server within a larger deployment of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=f4d4d0ae-e5d4-4ed1-8d78-7137578161ce

SQL Server Reporting Services Add-in for SharePoint Technologies

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=648766ac-2a35-4238-a3f4-c26d7077f2a9

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 Beta 2 for Windows Desktop

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=411ba1c5-ba57-45b6-9148-91bed6e7a9f1

SQL 2008

How to protect SAP with DPM 2007 sp1

This whitepaper discusses why and how to protect SAP environments running on Microsoft SQL Server with Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 sp1

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=aa704f3e-aee5-418d-a63b-0e467b25b58f

Communications Server 2007 R2 Site Resiliency White Paper

This white paper provides guidelines and best practices for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 site resiliency.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=c930febb-3a44-4bf3-969d-1c52675a7063

Events/Webcasts

Momentum Webcast: Emerge Stronger with Microsoft Business Intelligence (Level 100)

Monday, November 09, 2009 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Discover how a Microsoft total business intelligence solution can help your organization emerge stronger from the economic downturn. In this presentation, we discuss how to use your existing technologies to identify cost-cutting opportunities, streamline operations, and strengthen and grow your customer base in today's marketplace.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032429506&culture=en-US

Momentum Webcast: Emerge Stronger with Microsoft BI: Operational Improvement (Level 100)

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Join us for part three of our four-part Emerge Stronger series on how the total Microsoft Business Intelligence solution can enable you to maximize your technology during the economic downturn. This presentation builds on the overview in the first webcast by providing a detailed look into how you can free cash from operations while keeping and growing your operational strength.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032428087&culture=en-US

New KB's

SQL 2000

SQL Svr 2000 Reporting Svcs EN: MS09-062: Description of the security update for GDI+ for SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services Service Pack 2: October 13, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970899/EN-US

SQL 2005

Report Viewer Redistrib 2005 SP1: MS09-062: Description of the security update for Microsoft Report Viewer 2005 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package: October 13, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971117/EN-US

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2: MS09-062: Description of the security update for GDI+ for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 GDR: October 13, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970895/EN-US

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2: MS09-062: Description of the security update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 QFE: October 13, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970896/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: You cannot process an object when you change or delete another unrelated object at the same time in the same database in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975748/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: You receive an incorrect result when you run an MDX query against a dimension that has a parent/child relationship, and uses the unary operator after you install Cumulative Update 3 for SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services SP3 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975783/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: Error message after you perform a Process Update on a dimension used on a cube that contains a writeback partition: "Errors in the high-level relational engine. The data source view does not contain a definition for the <tablename> table or view"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976030/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 SP3 AL: MS09-062: Description of the security update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 GDR: October 13, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970892/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 SP3 AL: MS09-062: Description of the security update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 QFE: October 13, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970894/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 EN: How to shrink the tempdb database in SQL Server (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307487/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: How to monitor blocking in SQL Server 2005 and in SQL Server 2000 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/271509/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: SQL Server Agent jobs may fail after you change the SQL Server Agent service startup account by using the Windows Service Control Manager (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911305/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Tuning options for SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 when running in high performance workloads (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920093/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message in the database mail log when you try to use the sp_send_dbmail stored procedure to send an e-mail in SQL Server 2005: "Invalid XML message format received on the ExternalMailQueue" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928789/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: On a computer that has a multicore processor, if the ratio of logical processors to physical sockets is not a power of 2, you cannot install SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954835/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The connection to a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services catalog database encounters an error, and the connection is not reset

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972926/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: You use the COUNT function on a column that is returned by a subquery that returns no rows in SQL Server 2005, and an incorrect result is returned

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974067/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A memory leak may occur if you use a linked server query to retrieve a sql_variant column from a remote server in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974130/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message in the SQL Server 2005 Errorlog file after the SQL Server service stops responding: “Timeout occurred while waiting for latch”

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974205/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A deadlock occurs when you perform an operation that cleans up the security cache in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974296/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you use database mirroring in SQL Server 2005, and an assertion failure occurs intermittently: "SQL Server Assertion: File: <loglock.cpp>, line=823 Failed Assertion = 'result == LCK_OK'."

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974319/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Database restore operation may fail during the recovery phase when the database uses query notification in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974777/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: An API cursor plan that is created by a plan guide is not reused when the cursor is active

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974785/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A "DBCC CHECKDB" statement or a "DBCC CHECKTABLE" statement reports errors after you rebuild an XML index in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974985/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The restore operation takes a long time when you restore a database that has query notification enabled in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975089/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Deadlocks may occur when multiple concurrent query notification subscriptions are fired on same objects in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975090/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Capitalization and accent changes on a column of user-defined data type are not propagated in SQL Server 2005 merge replication

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975134/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: For SQL Server Compact Edition (CE) Subscribers, only schema without data is replicated for newly added articles to an existing Merge Publication using “ExchangeType.Upload” (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975159/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: You receive an incorrect result when you run a query that uses a ranking function on a partitioned table in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975230/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A SELECT statement returns an incorrect result set if a linked server is being used in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975417/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The database mirroring session is suspended when you add more than one log transaction file to a folder on the principle server that does not exist on the mirror server

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975681/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: You receive an incorrect result when you run a query that uses a parallel execution plan in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976041/EN-US

SQL 2008

Report Viewer Redistrib 2008: MS09-062: Description of the security update for Microsoft Report Viewer 2008 Redistributable Package: October 13, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971118/EN-US

Report Viewer Redistrib 2008: MS09-062: Description of the security update for Microsoft Report Viewer 2008 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package: October 13, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971119/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: Error messages may be logged in the SQL Server error log after you run a DBCC command in SQL Server (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926070/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: List of known issues when you install SQL Server on Windows 7 or on Windows Server 2008 R2 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955725/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Updates to Microsoft SQL server 2008 will fail after an edition upgrade (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970608/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The performance decreases when you open the Report Builder (RB) ClickOnce application after you install SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974371/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The row count is incorrect after you run a "BULK INSERT" statement by using SQL Server JDBC driver 2.0 to insert data into a table

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975565/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: The SQL Server 2008 Books Online shortcuts and the SQL Server 2008 Books Online folder disappear from Start menu after you install the May 2009 version of SQL Server 2008 Books Online

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976115/EN-US

October 2009 – Technology Rollup Mail - SQL Server

conuktrm — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:01:00 GMT

News

The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Database Management Systems, Q2 2009.
This Forrester Wave assesses more than a dozen firms based primarily on their enterprise open source and closed source database management systems. Forrester named Microsoft a ‘leader’ in the DBMS Wave and states that Microsoft is “The most aggressive DBMS vendor with a strong road map.” In this Wave, Forrester categorizes Leaders as offering “broad set of functionality to support any critical transactional application.”

This Magic Quadrant depicts Gartner's analysis of how data warehouse DBMS software-only vendors measure against specific criteria within the marketplace.

Forrester Research

New Independent Study Finds 162% Risk-Adjusted ROI for SQL Server 2008 Deployment in Total Economic Impact™ of SQL Server 2008 Upgrade study.

Gartner, Inc.

Microsoft is positioned in Leaders Quadrant for Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 2008.

IDC

SQL Server is the fastest growing Database and Business Intelligence vendor.

IDC

SQL Server ships more units than Oracle and IBM combined.

The OLAP Report

SQL Server is the #1 OLAP Server on the market

Dark Reading

Study: SQL Server Is Safest DB

NGS Software Insight Security Research

Technical RollUp

http://blogs.technet.com/trm/default.aspx

Documents

Other

Microsoft® SQL Server® StreamInsight CTP2

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=a3faa562-b6dc-4702-90c6-bf8e08df3b8b

SQL 2000

Excel 2002/2003 Add-in for SQL Server Analysis Services

The Excel Add-in for SQL Server Analysis Services has been removed to avoid customer confusion about support for this component.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=dae82128-9f21-475d-88a4-4b6e6c069ff0

SSABI

The Microsoft SQL Server™ Accelerator for Business Intelligence (SQL Server Accelerator for BI) has been removed to avoid customer confusion about support for this component.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=a370fbc9-98b1-4f5c-b09b-6f1bf08e9292

SQL 2005

Excel 2002/2003 Add-in for SQL Server Analysis Services

The Excel Add-in for SQL Server Analysis Services has been removed to avoid customer confusion about support for this component.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=dae82128-9f21-475d-88a4-4b6e6c069ff0

Events/Webcasts

Momentum Webcast: Emerge Stronger with Business Intelligence: Finance and Cost Management (Level 100)

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Join us for part two of our four-part Emerge Stronger webcast series to learn how a Microsoft total business intelligence solution can help you maximize your technology investment during the economic downturn. In this webcast, we build on the overview provided in the first webcast by providing a detailed look into how you can identify cost-cutting opportunities and improve your financial visibility.

Presenter: Dana Straw, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation

View other sessions from Momentum: Drive Your Midsize Business Forward

If you have questions or feedback, contact us.

In addition to Momentum webcasts, Microsoft offers a complimentary e-newsletter with real-world examples of how to align IT with your business strategy. You get tips and techniques on using Microsoft technologies and straight talk about solutions that work for mid-sized businesses. If you would like to receive the Business Insights newsletter, click here.

Regardless of any contact preferences you might have previously made on this Microsoft site or on other Microsoft sites or services, by registering for this webcast or virtual lab, you consent and agree to allow Microsoft or one of its third-party agents to contact you no more than three (3) instances for the purpose of soliciting feedback on the webcast or virtual lab or to supply you with special discounts and offers related to products and services presented in the webcast or virtual lab. Any other use of the personal information in your Microsoft Passport profile is subject to the Microsoft Privacy Statement. You can learn more about the privacy and security of Microsoft Passport Network at www.Passport.net

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032426069&culture=en-US

New KB's

Other

SQL Svr Compact Edtn 3.5 AL: FIX: Error message when an application inserts a value into a foreign key column in SQL Server Compact 3.5: "No key matching the described characteristics could be found within the current range"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974068/EN-US

SQL 2000

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2000 EN: How to impede Windows NT administrators from administering a clustered instance of SQL Server (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/263712/EN-US

SQL 2005

SQL Svr Express Edtn 2005 EN: Error message when you try to uninstall a SQL Server 2005 Express Edition hotfix package: "1731 The source installation package for the product [2] is out of sync with the client package" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955250/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A query that involves an outer join operation runs very slowly in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942444/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you perform an update operation by using a cursor in SQL Server 2005: "Transaction (Process ID <SPID>) was deadlocked on lock resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953948/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954835/EN-US

SQL 2008

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: INF: Understanding and resolving SQL Server blocking problems (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224453/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: How to configure an instance of SQL Server to listen on a specific TCP port or dynamic port (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823938/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: How to uninstall an instance of SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955499/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: When you delete maintenance plans on a server instance that is restored from a SQL Server 2008 MSDB database backup, maintenance plans are deleted from the server instance on which the MSDB database was backed up (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955800/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Support policy for Microsoft SQL Server products that are running in a hardware virtualization environment (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956893/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Updates to Microsoft SQL server 2008 will fail after an edition upgrade (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970608/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The memory usage of a SQL Server service increases quickly when you run a query that uses a linked server in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971622/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A performance issue in which SQL Server 2008 Management Studio checks the fragmentation data of an index in a large database

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972937/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A validation error is returned when you use the MSOLAP10 provider to connect to a SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services server and set the value of the SubQueries property to 2 in the connection string

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972939/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: You cannot synchronize data for a peer-to-peer replication after you perform a dummy update operation in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973223/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: When you run a query that uses the MIN or MAX function against a partitioned view in SQL Server 2008, the query runs much slower than when you run the same query in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973255/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you use Microsoft Connector 1.0 for SAP BI in a SQL Server 2008 Integration Services package to extract data from SAP BW: "System.OutOfMemoryException: Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973292/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you resize a Chart control in the Report Designer in SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence Development Studio on a computer that is running Windows 7: "Chart Exception: Parameter is not valid."

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973300/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A query that uses the WITH CUBE aggregation incorrectly returns NULL values when you set the ANSI_WARNINGS option to "ON" in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973580/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: You receive various error messages when you open a SQL Server Reporting Services report whose data source uses the HTTP protocol to connect to SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973588/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Cumulative update package 4 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973602/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Change tracking cleanup does not clean up the sys.syscommittab system table in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973696/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The Database Mirroring session is disconnected when you manually perform a failover in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973897/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A specified collation is displayed incorrectly when you use the Advanced/Enterprise installation mode to install a SQL Server 2008 failover cluster through the GUI

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974036/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you use the DTExec.exe or DTExecUi.exe utility to run a SQL Server 2008 Integration Services package by specifying a configuration file: “The package path referenced an object that cannot be found”

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974076/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Some files are not rolled back to the original file versions after you uninstall a SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 hotfix that is applied when you use a slipstream installation

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974231/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you preview a report in Report Builder 2.0 when the Report server uses Basic Authentication: "The request failed with HTTP status 401: Unauthorized."

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974276/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A subreport does not appear if you set the MergeTransactions property of the subreport to "True" in SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974404/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you use the BCP utility with the -R option in SQL Server 2008 to load a file that contains the dates of the non-English format: "[Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 10.0]Invalid date format"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974712/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when two or more merge agents are trying to adjust a publisher identity range in parallel in SQL Server 2008: "Msg 548, The insert failed. It conflicted with an identity range check constraint"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975037/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you install SQL Server 2008 on a computer that is running Windows 7: "Invoke or BeginInvoke cannot be called on a control until the window handle has been created."

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975055/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: You cannot synchronize binary large object data by using a transactional replication when you set the SubscriptionStreams parameter of the Distribution Agent to a value that is larger than 1 in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975171/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: An access violation occurs when you run a MDX query that involves a calculated member that uses the SUM({set of measures}) function where the set contains measures from different measure groups in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975272/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The connection information is incorrect after you use "Change Connection" to connect to another server before the initial connection is completed in SQL Server Management Studio in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975414/EN-US

September 2009 – Technical Rollup Mail – SQL

conuktrm — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:01:00 GMT

News

SQL 2008

Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1

Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 with enhancements meant to ease deployment but no brand new features.

SQL Server to Get Real-Time Boost

The next release of Microsoft's SQL Server database, code-named "Kilimanjaro," will offer master data management (MDM) and support real-time data feeds for business intelligence (BI), reporting and analytics, the company revealed today.

Microsoft Announces SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse

New reference architectures from Bull, Dell and HP make it faster, easier, and more affordable for companies to deploy enterprise-class data warehousing projects.

Enterprise Customers Choose Microsoft Platform to Run SAP Applications for High-Performance, Multiterabyte Scalability and Low TCO

Microsoft announces Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Certification for SAP Business Suite 7, and new enterprise support and services.

Dave Campbell on SQL Server 2008, Cloud Services, and More

What he thinks about the latest SQL Server release, Kilimanjaro, Madison, and Azure.

Reduce IT Spending While Still Upgrading to SQL Server 2008

The latest features and functionality included out-of-the-box with SQL Server 2008 will allow IT managers to save a tremendous amount of money and at the same time reduce management costs, hence it is worth the investment and you should upgrade to SQL Server

2008.

Documents

Other

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 August Community Technology Preview Feature Pack

The Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Feature Pack is a collection of stand-alone packages which provide additional value for SQL Server 2008 R2.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=adc60012-be4a-47d0-877f-ca91326939c3

Microsoft® SQL Server® StreamInsight CTP2

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=a3faa562-b6dc-4702-90c6-bf8e08df3b8b

SQL 2005

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP3 Release Notes

The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (SP3) Release Notes describe known issues that you should read about before you install or troubleshoot SQL Server 2005 SP3.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=91227943-12f7-4602-b86b-d50ed8ce79da

SQL Server 2008 R2 Books Online CTP August 2009

Download the a community technology preview (CTP) release version of the documentation and tutorials for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=c18bad82-0e5f-4e82-812b-5b23e5d52b9c

Partial Database Availability

SQL Server 2005 features that enable appropriately designed solutions to achieve partial availability and remain online even after a disk subsystem hardware failure.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=11a7ae65-c792-47ea-8b4e-fb87d0ece9b6

Excel 2007 Document: Designing SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services Cubes for Excel 2007 PivotTables

This document outlines how to improve the end-user experience by optimizing the cube design for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 PivotTable dynamic views.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=2d779cd5-eeb2-43e9-bdfa-641ed89edb6c

SQL 2008

Microsoft SQL Server Protocol Documentation

The Microsoft SQL Server protocol documentation provides technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols that are implemented and used in Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=91ef5106-944a-41e1-b3a0-5bd3f2356f32

SQL Server 2008 R2 Books Online CTP August 2009

Download the a community technology preview (CTP) release version of the documentation and tutorials for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=c18bad82-0e5f-4e82-812b-5b23e5d52b9c

Partial Database Availability

SQL Server 2005 features that enable appropriately designed solutions to achieve partial availability and remain online even after a disk subsystem hardware failure.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=11a7ae65-c792-47ea-8b4e-fb87d0ece9b6

Microsoft Assessment and Planning

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit makes it easy to assess your current IT infrastructure for a variety of technology migration projects. This Solution Accelerator provides a powerful inventory, assessment, and reporting tool to simplify the migration planning process.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=67240b76-3148-4e49-943d-4d9ea7f77730

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Books Online (July 2009)

Download the documentation and tutorials for Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=765433f7-0983-4d7a-b628-0a98145bcb97

Events/Webcasts

Momentum Webcast: Emerge Stronger with Business Intelligence (Level 100)

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Join us for this informative overview on how the Microsoft total business intelligence solution can help you to emerge stronger from the economic downturn. In this webcast, we help you understand how to take advantage of your existing technologies to identify cost cutting opportunities, streamline operations, and strengthen and grow your customer base. This is the first webcast in the four-part Emerge Stronger webcast series, which is specifically designed to address your business intelligence needs in the current marketplace.

Presenter: Dana Straw, Senior Product Manager - Server Application Platform, Microsoft Corporation

View other sessions from Momentum: Drive Your Midsize Business Forward

If you have questions or feedback, contact us.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032423640&culture=en-US

New KB's

Other

SQL Svr Compact Edtn 3.5 AL: FIX: The application enters into an infinite loop when you run an application that uses Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.NET to synchronize a SQL Server Compact 3.5 database

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972390/EN-US

SQL 2000

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2000 EN: PRB: SQL Server Full-Text Search Does Not Populate Catalogs (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/317746/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2000 EN: Diagnostics in SQL Server 2000 SP4 and in later versions help detect stalled and stuck I/O operations (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/897284/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2000 EN: FIX: You receive an “Error: 8526, Severity: 16, State: 2” error message in SQL Profiler when you use SQL Query Analyzer to start or to enlist into a distributed transaction after you have installed SQL Server 2000 SP4 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/903742/EN-US

SQL 2005

JDBC Driver for SQL Server 2005: FIX: The getColumns method of the DatabaseMetaData object returns an incorrect column length if the column length is 24 in the SQL Server 2005 JDBC driver 1.2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972139/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: How to install SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services on a failover cluster (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910230/EN-US

SQL Svr Developer Edtn 2005 EN: How to use Kerberos authentication in SQL Server (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319723/EN-US

SQL Svr Developer Edtn 2005 EN: How to troubleshoot the "Cannot generate SSPI context" error message (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811889/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Changes to the readme file for SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907284/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: On a computer that has a 64-bit processor, you receive an error message in SQL Server Management Studio when you connect to SQL Server 2005 Integration Services or when you create or edit a maintenance plan (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919224/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Queries take a longer time to finish running when the size of the TokenAndPermUserStore cache grows in SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927396/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: You cannot specify a USB-based tape drive as a backup device in SQL Server 2005 and in SQL Server 2000 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927797/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A gradual increase in memory consumption for the USERSTORE_TOKENPERM cache store occurs in SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933564/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: An Incremental Servicing Model is available from the SQL Server team to deliver hotfixes for reported problems (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935897/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: When you install a SQL Server 2005 service pack or a SQL Server 2005 hotfix, the installation stops unexpectedly (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936488/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: The SQL Server 2005 builds that were released after SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 was released (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937137/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: How to customize the quota for the TokenAndPermUserStore cache store in SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959823/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: The SQL Server 2005 builds that were released after SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 was released (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960598/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you try to rebuild one partition of an index on an indexed view in SQL Server 2005: "A system assertion check has failed. Check the SQL Server error log for details."

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970726/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you run a report in SQL Server 2005 SP2 Reporting Services by using a URL from a subscription: "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971114/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you run a "BULK INSERT" statement on a table that does not have a clustered index in SQL Server 2005: "spid1005 Error: 5243, Severity: 22, State: 1 An inconsistency was detected during an internal operation"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972271/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you restore a SQL Server 2000 database by using SQL Server 2005 Management Studio or SQL Server 2008 Management Studio: "Cannot show requested dialog. Failed to retrieve data for this request (Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoEnum)" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972687/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Add-in for SharePoint removes the "Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo" assembly for SQL Server 2005 from the GAC

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972694/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you run the Distribution Agent to synchronize the subscribers with the publisher in Microsoft SQL Server 2005:" The incoming tabular data stream (TDS) remote procedure call (RPC) protocol stream is incorrect"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973103/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The execution of the "xp_readerrorlog" command in SQL Server 2005 stops responding and the usage of the CPU that is running the command increases to 100 percent

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973524/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: An incorrect result is returned when you run a query against an XML column that contains XML data that is generated by the FOR XML clause and contains nested data sections in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973578/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A performance issue occurs when you run a query by using a Fast Forward cursor in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973877/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Some nodes are not updated as expected when you apply Service Pack 3 or a post-Service Pack 3 update in a SQL Server 2005 cluster that is based on Windows Server 2008 R2 failover clustering (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973993/EN-US

SQL 2008

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: You must specify the domain groups for the clustered SQL Server services when you install a SQL Server failover cluster (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910708/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: How do I open the firewall port for SQL Server on Windows Server 2008? (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968872/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: 'Microsoft SQL Server management studio' and 'SQL Server Profiler' report 'Evaluation period has expired' message even after upgrading to a licensed edition (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971268/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Description of the "access check bucket count" and "access check cache quota" options that are available in the sp_configure stored procedure in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955644/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: After you install a SQL Server 2008 failover cluster in a disk that contains a mounted volume, no dependencies are created between the mounted volume and the disk (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956008/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: List of the bugs that are fixed in SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968369/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: An INSERT INTO <table name> EXEC <stored procedure name> statement generates error messages even if you set the ANSI_WARNINGS option to "OFF" in SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971057/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you create a SharePoint subscription on a SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services report that uses cascading parameters: "This report requires a default or user-defined value for the report parameter '<Parameter>'" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971068/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The removal of a transaction log file of the database on the principal server breaks a database mirroring session in SQL Server 2005 or in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972681/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Some columns are missing when you run a query against a table that is located on a linked server if the column names contain a period character in SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972856/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: The Full-Text Search component is not completely rolled back to the Service Pack 1 version after you uninstall Cumulative Update 3 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 that is applied by using a slipstream installation (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973888/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: The default setting is used instead of the setting that is specified in the "Prepare Failover Cluster" stage when you perform an advanced cluster installation of a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 failover cluster

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973992/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Microsoft Advisory Services Engagement Scenario - SQL Server Performance

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974626/EN-US

August 2009 – Technical Rollup Mail - SQL

conuktrm — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:30:00 GMT

News

Microsoft hires noted database researcher to help scale SQL Server

DeWitt to head research lab at UW-Madison, hopes to see results make their way into products.

Test Center review: Deep dive into SQL Server 2008

Microsoft unveils a road map for SQL Server "Kilimanjaro," which will contain new BI capabilities.

One-to-Many

Have Microsoft's new tools made you the part-time DBA?

Inside SQL Server 2008

Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2008 Virtual Pressroom

Check out the highlights from PDC 2008!

Microsoft Focuses on BI for SQL Server Kilimanjaro

Microsoft unveils a road map for SQL Server "Kilimanjaro," which will contain new BI capabilities.

Microsoft Empowers Enterprises to Think Bigger About Business Intelligence

SQL Server 2008 Ups Pressure on Competitors; Microsoft Boosts Manageability, BI, Performance, Productivity, and Security

New Independent Study Finds 162% Risk-Adjusted ROI for SQL Server 2008 Deployment

An independent commissioned study conducted by Forrester Research explores the economic impact and ROI achieved by a healthcare customer after deploying SQL Server 2008

SQL Server 2008 Released

Technical RollUp

http://blogs.technet.com/trm/default.aspx

Downloads

Other

SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC SP3

JDBC Driver for SQL Server 2000 Notification

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=07287b11-0502-461a-b138-2aa54bfdc03a

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Business Intelligence Cube Reference Guide

This document describes the dimensions, measures, KPI information, and other elements of the preconfigured cubes that are provided with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=6a685df3-912d-4545-b990-cd2283c159fb

SQL 2000

SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC SP3

JDBC Driver for SQL Server 2000 Notification

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=07287b11-0502-461a-b138-2aa54bfdc03a

SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC Service Pack 2

JDBC Driver for SQL Server 2000 Notification

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=9f1874b6-f8e1-4bd6-947c-0fc5bf05bf71

SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC Service Pack 1

JDBC Driver for SQL Server 2000 Notification

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=4f8f2f01-1ed7-4c4d-8f7b-3d47969e66ae

SQL 2005

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Business Intelligence Cube Reference Guide

This document describes the dimensions, measures, KPI information, and other elements of the preconfigured cubes that are provided with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=6a685df3-912d-4545-b990-cd2283c159fb

SQL 2008

Microsoft SQL Server Protocol Documentation

The Microsoft SQL Server protocol documentation provides technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols that are implemented and used in Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=91ef5106-944a-41e1-b3a0-5bd3f2356f32

Microsoft Assessment and Planning

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=67240b76-3148-4e49-943d-4d9ea7f77730

Communications Server 2007 R2 Site Resiliency White Paper

This white paper provides guidelines and best practices for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 site resiliency.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=c930febb-3a44-4bf3-969d-1c52675a7063

New KB's

Other

SQL Svr Compact Edtn 3.5 AL: FIX: Some rows are deleted when you repair a database by using the Repair method together with the RepairOption.RecoverCorruptedRows option in SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition and in SQL Server Compact 3.5 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967963/EN-US

SQL Svr Compact Edtn 3.5 AL: FIX: Error message when you try to create an encrypted database in SQL Server Compact 3.5: "The operating system does not support encryption"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972002/EN-US

SQL 2000

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2000 EN: SQL Server is not supported on Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 Terminal Server application server (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/327270/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2000 EN: Application errors occur after you run Xmlinst.exe on production servers (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278636/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2000 EN: Cumulative list of the hotfixes that are available for SQL Server 2000 SP4 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894905/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2000 EN: MS09-004: Description of the security update for SQL Server 2000 QFE and for MSDE 2000: February 10, 2009 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960083/EN-US

SQL 2005

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: Error message when you run an MDX query that requests a dimension property on a parent-child hierarchy in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services or in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970551/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: An MDX query that uses the NON EMPTY clause and the DrillDownLevel function returns null values in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services or SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970966/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Reporting Svcs EN: How to install and how to configure SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938245/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Reporting Svcs EN: FIX: Error message when you open a report by specifying a multivalued parameter in a URL in SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services: "Default value or value provided for the report parameter '<Parameter>' is not a valid value" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970058/EN-US

SQL Svr Compact Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you synchronize a merge replication with SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition subscribers: "A column ID occurred more than once in the specification. HRESULT 0x80040E3E (0)"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970915/EN-US

SQL Svr Compact Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: You cannot insert rows or upload changes into the SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition subscriber tables after you run the "sp_changemergearticle" stored procedure or you add a new merge publication article when another article has an IDENTITY column

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971970/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 EN: How to move databases between computers that are running SQL Server (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314546/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 EN: SQL Server support for mounted volumes (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/819546/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The SQL Server 2005 Setup program may take much longer than expected to finish running (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910070/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The SQL Server engine in SQL Server 2005 and in SQL Server 2008 may consume large amounts of memory during the setup configuration phase (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967522/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Error message when you perform a full backup of a database in SQL Server 2005: "Backup failed for Server 'ComputerName\SQLInstanceName' " or "The backup of the file or filegroup 'sysft_FullTextCatalog' is not permitted because it is not online" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923355/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: When you run a query against a table that contains Traditional Chinese characters, the incorrect result is returned in SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948567/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954835/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Data results are inconsistent when you run a search query that uses the NEAR operator against an XML type data that contains the xml:lang attribute (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956574/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you send an e-mail by using Database Mail in SQL Server 2005 or in SQL Server 2008: "The operation has timed out" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968834/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: An assertion failure occurs when you switch the schedule of a report subscription between a shared schedule and a custom schedule in SQL Server 2005 Report Services or SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969528/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: You receive inconsistent results when you run index-related DMVs to return statistical information about missing indexes in SQL Server 2005 or in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969844/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: CPU usage increases when you run a query that uses a string comparison function on a computer that has many processors after you upgrade to SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 or to SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970823/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you send an e-mail by using a private Database Mail profile in SQL Server 2005 or in SQL Server 2008: "profile name is not valid" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971402/EN-US

SQL 2008

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: List of known issues when you install SQL Server on Windows 7 RC or on Windows Server 2008 R2 RC (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955725/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: The SQL Server 2008 builds that were released after SQL Server 2008 was released (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956909/EN-US

SQL Svr Express Edition 2008 AL: Windows File Protection error for "msxml6r.dll" in setup of SQL on localized Windows XP SP3 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958897/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: You receive an incorrect result when you run a full-text query against a table that uses the Chinese word breaker in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967315/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: SQL Server 2008 Database Auditing shows query criteria as a parameterized value instead of the actual record (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967552/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The CPU usage of the resource monitor is very high when the virtual memory is running low in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968722/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you perform an online index rebuild operation for a table that has no clustered index in SQL Server 2008: "Location: pageref.cpp:913 Expression: IS_OFF" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968740/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: You receive asserts after you delete a row that contains BLOB data from a SQL Server 2008 database (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968741/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you rebuild a table that has sparse columns in SQL Server 2008: "Cannot alter table '<TableName>' because the table either contains sparse columns or a column set column which are incompatible with compression" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968742/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you run a SQL Server 2008 Integration Services package that contains an Execute SQL Task that runs a stored procedure: "The type of the value being assigned to variable "<Variable>" differs from the current variable type"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969050/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: SQL Server 2008 Report Designer renders numbers in an order opposite to what you expect when you add a special character to a Textbox control that contains both Hebrew characters and numbers (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969357/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you run a query that uses the CASE function in SQL Server 2008: "Conversion failed when converting the <Type1> value ‘<A value>’ to data type <Type2>." (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969467/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you run a job whose owner is a Windows user account after SQL Server 2005 Agent or SQL Server 2008 Agent is restarted: "The job failed. The owner () of job <Job Name> does not have server access" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969611/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you click the Columns tab in OLE DB Source Editor in SQL Server 2008 Integration Services: "Error at Data Flow Task [OLE DB Source [1]]: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_OLEDBERROR" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969793/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: You receive an incorrect result when you query data from a linked server that is created by using an index OLE DB provider in SQL Server 2005 or in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969997/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The Management Data Warehouse database grows very large after you enable the Data Collector feature in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970014/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you try to stop database mirroring between two servers that are running SQL Server 2008: "Non-yielding Scheduler"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970044/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: When you create a compressed backup for a database in SQL Server 2008, you cannot stop the backup operation if the backup operation stops responding

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970133/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: You receive an incorrect result when you run a query that uses the row_number function in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970198/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A performance issue occurs when you run a full-text query that contains the "AND NOT" clause in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970287/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: The SQL Server 2008 builds that were released after SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 was released (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970365/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The MAXDOP option for a running query or the max degree of parallelism option for the sp_configure stored procedure does not work in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970399/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message in SQL Server 2008 when you run an INSERT SELECT statement on a table: "Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint '<PrimaryKey>'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object '<TableName>'" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970507/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The data of a text box is missing when you print or export a SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services report that contains one or more subreports and one or more text boxes

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970666/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A policy is evaluated against an incorrect target when you run the policy category in evaluation mode on a remote server that is running SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970713/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: You receive an incorrect result when you run a full-text query that combines the NEAR operator together with the AND operator in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970909/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you run a SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services report in Business Intelligence Development Studio: "An item with the same key has already been added"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971049/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you run a SQL Server 2008-based application that calls the SQLBindParameter function: "The incoming tabular data stream (TDS) remote procedure call (RPC) protocol stream is incorrect"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971051/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: An INSERT INTO <table name> EXEC <stored procedure name> statement generates error messages even if you set the ANSI_WARNINGS option to "OFF" in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971057/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Quotation marks are rendered incorrectly when you export a SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services report to a .csv file (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971064/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971068/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The HTML format of a SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services report is not compliant with section 1194.22 standards in the Section 508 standards (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971132/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Cumulative update package 6 for SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971490/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you process a partition in a measure group in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services: "Errors in the high-level relational engine. The binding for the '<ColumnName>' column is not a ColumnBinding type"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971772/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you run a multithreaded application that uses SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) version 10.00: "An item with the same key has already been added"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971914/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A Drillthrough action inside table groups passes incorrect parameter values in SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971985/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Error message when you install the SharePoint add-in for the ClickOnce version of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Report Builder 2.0 on an x64-based computer:"Reporting Services Add-in for SharePoint products and technologies is not installed

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972068/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you process a very big dimension by using the Process Update option in SQL Server 2008: "File system error: While attempting to read information from disk, a read error occurred for physical file: <filename>, logical file"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972101/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: When you query the DataSpaceUsed property or the IndexSpaceUsed property of a database that contains many tables in SQL Server 2008, the query takes a long time to finish

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972197/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you try to add a filter for an included column index in SQL Server 2008: "Add object to collection failed for IndexedColumnCollection of Index '<IndexName>'"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972198/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you try to disable Resource Governor by using the UI in SQL Server 2008 Management Studio after you drop a Resource Governor workload group: "Alter failed for ResourceGovernor 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.ObjectKeyBase'"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972200/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The “Copy Only Backup” option is still available even though you select the “Differential” option in the “Back Up Database” dialog box in SQL Server 2008 Management Studio

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972201/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The value of the Size property of the Smo.Server(<serverName>).Databases collection is incorrect after you install Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972207/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you run a MERGE statement on a table that has a unique clustered index and a nonclustered index in SQL Server 2008: "Cannot insert duplicate key row in object '<TableName>' with unique index '<IndexName>'"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972261/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services does not deliver a report that contains a line chart of the Stepped Line chart type at the scheduled time

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972521/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you run a full-text query in SQL Server 2008 after you register an IFilter: "No appropriate filter was found during full-text index population for table or indexed view"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972650/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The removal of a transaction log file of the database on the principal server breaks a database mirroring session in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972681/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Installing SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 may reset the "max_worker_threads" column value for a SQL Server Agent subsystem

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972759/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The queries run very slowly when you run MDX queries in an application that uses the ADOMD.NET data provider through HTTP to connect to SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972763/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The SQL Server 2008 database engine and SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services may consume more power on Windows client computers than expected (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972767/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: An additional scrollbar appears when you use Outlook 2003 to open a SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services report that was sent in MHTML format to an e-mail subscription

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972833/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: You receive an incorrect result when you query a parent/child hierarchy that contains a single member on a level in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972984/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: No results are returned when you run an MDX query that references a calculated member in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973200/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A change to the Maximum File Size property on a large database takes a long time to finish in SQL Server 2008 Management Studio

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973204/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A specified collation is displayed incorrectly when you use the Advanced/Enterprise installation mode to install a SQL Server 2008 failover cluster through the GUI

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973250/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The SQL:BatchCompleted event and the RPC:Completed event displays an incorrect row count when you use SQL Server Profiler to monitor a sp_executesql stored procedure call in Microsoft SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973257/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you install SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 on a Windows XP-based computer that has SQL Server 2000 installed: "Object reference not set to an instance of an object."

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973301/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you capture a SQL Server trace file in SQL Server 2008: "Non-yielding Scheduler"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973302/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you run the sp_add_alert stored procedure in SQL Server 2008 on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista: "SQLServerAgent Error: WMI error: 0x80041003"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973303/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973888/EN-US

July 2009 – Technical Rollup Mail – SQL Server

conuktrm — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:01:00 GMT

News

Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1

Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 with enhancements meant to ease deployment but no brand new features.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/Microsoft-Releases-SQL-Server-2008-Service-Pack-1-687774/

SQL Server to Get Real-Time Boost

http://reddevnews.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=10836%20

Microsoft Announces SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse

New reference architectures from Bull, Dell and HP make it faster, easier, and more affordable for companies to deploy enterprise-class data warehousing projects.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/feb09/02-23SQLFastTrackPR.mspx

Dave Campbell on SQL Server 2008, Cloud Services, and More

What he thinks about the latest SQL Server release, Kilimanjaro, Madison, and Azure.

http://www.sqlmag.com/Articles/ArticleID/101093/101093.html?Ad=1

Reduce IT Spending While Still Upgrading to SQL Server 2008

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/37293

Other

Technical RollUp

http://blogs.technet.com/trm/default.aspx

Downloads

SQL 2005

Partial Database Availability

SQL Server 2005 features that enable appropriately designed solutions to achieve partial availability and remain online even after a disk subsystem hardware failure.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=11a7ae65-c792-47ea-8b4e-fb87d0ece9b6

SQL 2008

Partial Database Availability

SQL Server 2005 features that enable appropriately designed solutions to achieve partial availability and remain online even after a disk subsystem hardware failure.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=11a7ae65-c792-47ea-8b4e-fb87d0ece9b6

Events/Webcasts

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Manages Vendor Development Projects (Level 300)

Tuesday, July 28, 2009 9:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

When managing vendor development projects, lack of metrics, or the dependence on a single metric, can lead to surprises by the project’s end. Learn about the tracking system that Microsoft IT uses to manage software development projects from a client perspective. Agile Cross IT Engineering (AXE) generates telling project metrics from a small amount of provided data. The system provides immediate project feedback, and supports overall project and vendor analysis.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032417615&culture=en-US

New KB's

Other

SQL Svr Compact Edtn 3.5 AL: FIX: Access violations occur when you run an application under heavy load conditions after you install the 64-bit version SQL Server Compact 3.5 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970269/EN-US

SQL Svr Compact Edtn 3.5 AL: FIX: Initial synchronization of a replication to SQL Server Compact 3.5 subscribers takes significant time to finish

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970414/EN-US

SQL 2000

SQL Svr 64-bit 2000 EN: FIX: An access violation occurs when you run a DELETE statement or an UPDATE statement in the Itanium-based versions of SQL Server 2000 after you install security update MS09-004

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971524/EN-US

SQL 2005

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: Measures, measure groups, and dimensions that are not part of a perspective are exposed incorrectly when you create a grouping on the perspective in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services or in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968900/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: Error message when you run an MDX query that requests a dimension property on a parent-child hierarchy in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970551/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: An MDX query that uses the NON EMPTY clause and the DrillDownLevel function returns null values in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970966/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Reporting Svcs EN: How to install a 32-bit version of SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services on a computer that is running a 64-bit version of Windows (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934162/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Reporting Svcs EN: How to install and how to configure SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938245/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Reporting Svcs EN: FIX: Error message when you open a report by specifying multiple values for a multivalued parameter in a URL in SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services: "Default value or value provided for the report parameter '<Parameter>' is not a valid value" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970058/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Reporting Svcs EN: Error message when you view a report from Report Manager, ReportViewer, or a SharePoint site: "Execution '<SessionID>' cannot be found (rsExecutionNotFound)"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972328/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: The SQL Server 2005 builds that were released after SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 was released (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937137/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: When you run a query against a table that contains Traditional Chinese characters, the incorrect result is returned in SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948567/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Data results are inconsistent when you run a search query that uses the NEAR operator against an XML type data that contains the xml:lang attribute (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956574/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: The SQL Server 2005 builds that were released after SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 was released (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960598/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: When you run a query that has a parallel execution plan in parallel under the READ COMMITTED isolation level on a database that is set the READ COMMITTED SNAPSHOT option in SQL Server 2005, the query that you may obtain may return uncommitted data (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961050/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The SQL Server service stops responding, and you receive error 1450 when you create database snapshot or run a DBCC CHECK statement on a database in SQL Server 2005 and in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967164/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Cumulative update package 3 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967909/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you send an e-mail by using Database Mail in SQL Server 2005 or in SQL Server 2008: "The operation has timed out" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968834/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969528/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: You receive inconsistent results when you run index-related DMVs to return statistical information about missing indexes in SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969844/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you run a SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008 Integration Services package (SSIS) after you install the .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 or the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1: "ADO NET Source [1424]"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969845/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Cumulative update package 14 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970278/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The SQL Server service consumes lots of memory when you run a query that uses the sys.dm_exec_sql_text dynamic management function in the APPLY operator in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970648/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message in the Errorlog file when you run a query in SQL Server 2005: "A time-out occurred while waiting for buffer latch" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970672/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970823/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971114/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you send an e-mail by using a private Database Mail profile in SQL Server 2005: "profile name is not valid"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971402/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you run a query that contains duplicate join conditions in SQL Server 2005: "Internal Query Processor Error: The query processor could not produce a query plan"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971409/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: An UPDATE or a DELETE statement that uses a join on a remote table in a linked server runs very slowly in Microsoft SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971529/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The synchronization operation fails when you run the Merge Agent to synchronize a merge publication that uses Web synchronization in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971607/EN-US

SQL Svr Std Edtn 2005 64Bit EN: The "SQL Server:SSIS Pipeline" performance object does not appear in the "Performance object" list after you install Integration Services from a 64-bit version of SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941154/EN-US

SQL 2008

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: How to update or slipstream an installation of SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955392/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: List of known issues when you install SQL Server on Windows 7 RC or on Windows Server 2008 R2 RC (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955725/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: Error message when you try to batch insert data on a publisher of a merge replication in SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2005: "Msg 548, Level 16, State 2, Line 1. The insert failed"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972006/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance is taken offline when you change the password for the service account on the non-owner node

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972387/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: The ActiveX Script task in an Integration Services package does not run after you uninstall SQL Server 2005 from a computer that has SQL Server 2008 installed (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955713/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A time-out occurs when you use SQL Server Management Studio to try to restore a large database from a backup on a tape in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967205/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you perform an update or a delete operation on a table that does not have a clustered index created in SQL Server 2005 and in SQL Server 2008: "The operating system returned error 1450" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967470/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969611/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Stop error message when you install SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 or SQL Server 2008 on a Windows XP-based computer that is earlier than Windows XP SP3: "CRITICAL_OBJECT_TERMINATION" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969936/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969997/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Queries from a query notification that has a lot of subscriptions run slowly when you change the Auto Close option to False in SQL Server 2005 or in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970349/EN-US

June 2009 - Technical Rollup Mail - SQL

Justin Zarb — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:23:00 GMT

News

Technical RollUp
http://blogs.technet.com/trm/default.aspx

Documents

Introducing Microsoft’s Platform for Complex Event Processing
http://download.microsoft.com/download/F/D/5/FD5E855C-D895-45A8-9F3E-110AFADBE51A/Microsoft%20CEP%20Overview.docx
This paper is an overview of the Microsoft platform for complex event processing.
Audience: High-level

SQL Server 2008 Sustainability
http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/F/B/CFB498D0-37B0-4805-9B41-EE2FCA3F1196/SQL%20Sustainability%20Technical%20White%20Paper.doc
Microsoft IT produced the SQL Utility to improve SQL Server manageability through host consolidation, virtualization, and standardization.

Auditing in SQL Server 2008
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd392015.aspx
With SQL Server Audit, SQL Server 2008 introduces an important new feature that provides a true auditing solution for enterprise customers. While SQL Trace can be used to satisfy many auditing needs, SQL Server Audit offers a number of attractive advantages that may help DBAs more easily achieve their goals such as meeting regulatory compliance requirements.
Audience: High-level

SQL Server 2008 Product Overview
http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/9/d/69d1fea7-5b42-437a-b3ba-a4ad13e34ef6/SQL2008_ProductOverview.docx
Microsoft SQL Server provides a policy-based system for managing one or more instances of SQL Server along with tools for performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and tuning that enable administrators to more efficiently manage their databases and SQL Server instances.
Audience: High-level

Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server 2008 Whitepaper
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd672789.aspx
This white paper provides step-by-step guidelines for diagnosing and troubleshooting common performance problems by using publicly available tools such as:
▪ SQL Server Profiler
▪ System Monitor (in the Windows Server 2003 operating system) or
▪ Performance Monitor (in the Windows Vista operating system and Windows Server 2008), also known as Perfmon
▪ Dynamic management views (sometimes referred to as DMVs)
▪ SQL Server Extended Events (Extended Events) and the data collector, which are new in SQL Server 2008.

Geo-Replication Performance Gains with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Running on Windows Server 2008
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd263442.aspx
Microsoft.com Engineering Operations (MSCOM Ops), the team responsible for architecting and managing many of the most heavily trafficked Microsoft Web sites, recently documented substantial replication performance improvements for both push and pull subscriptions in Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 running on Windows Server® 2008—up to 100 times faster than Microsoft SQL Server 2005 running on Windows Server 2003. This paper provides IT pros with an in-depth look at the tests conducted by the MSCOM Ops team, insight into the results, and technical analysis of the enhancements to Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 that enable wide area network (WAN)–based geo-replication.
Audience: High-level

Downloads

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Evaluation: Trial Experience for Developers
Download SQL Server 2008 180-day Trial Software. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is a database platform for large-scale online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing, and e-commerce applications; it is also a business intelligence platform for data analysis and reporting solutions.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=6b10c7c1-4f97-42c4-9362-58d4d088cd38

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Evaluation: Trial Experience for IT Professionals
Download SQL Server 2008 180-day Trial Software. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is a database platform for large-scale online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing, and e-commerce applications; it is also a business intelligence platform for data analysis and reporting solutions.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=265f08bc-1874-4c81-83d8-0d48dbce6297

PHP on Windows Training Kit
The PHP on Windows Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content including demos and hands-on labs to help you understand how to build PHP applications using Windows, IIS 7 and SQL Server 2008.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=c8498c9b-a85a-4afa-90c0-593d0e4850cb

Adapter Pack
The BizTalk Adapter Pack has adapters for Oracle eBusiness Suite, SQL Server ,Oracle Database, mySAP Business Suite and Siebel eBusiness Applications
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=76736ba7-3c05-4436-9353-1c33f9005194

Visio Add-In for SQL Server
Visio Infrastructure for SQL Servers is a tool which is meant for IT administrators who require constant interactions with the users for the installations of the SQL server in any IT infrastructure.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=779561de-c704-4584-80ac-7e4348c927c0

SQL Server Driver for PHP Version 1.0 Cumulative Update - April 2009
Download the SQL Server Driver for PHP Version 1.0 Cumulative Update - April 2009.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=61bf87e0-d031-466b-b09a-6597c21a2e2a

SQL Adapter
The WCF based SQL Adapter can be used to connect BizTalk applications to SQL Server
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=ceb0bb34-f9d2-4d14-8bbe-0311d227b091

Infrastructure Planning and Design
The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture. The guides in this series help clarify and streamline design processes for Microsoft infrastructure technologies, with each guide addressing a unique infrastructure technology or scenario.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=ad3921fb-8224-4681-9064-075fdf042b0c

Running Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 in a Virtualized Topology
This whitepaper defines the supported topologies and provides best practice recommendations for running Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and SQL Server™ 2008 in a Windows Hyper-V environment or other hypervisor technologies.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=0a45d921-3b48-44e4-b42b-19704a2b81b0

Web PI 2.0 Beta
The Web Platform Installer (WebPI) is a simplified download/install experience for all of Microsoft’s free web products.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=d87a71e4-00bd-4204-8f25-f245feb0c3ad

ALM Demo
The new ALM demo will demonstrate how organizations can standardize the collection of project requests across the organization, optimize budgets & align project portfolios with strategic priorities, improve communication & collaboration between project & dev teams, reduce admin tasks ensuring developers are focused on quality, & facilitate enterprise reporting & control across the portfolio.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=f904bd1a-c803-4cc1-95b2-f5e92d84d731

DCM for SQL Datasheet
This is Microsoft Services for SQL: Desired Configuration Monitoring (DCM) datasheet.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=fcda8b1c-6634-47a5-8601-e21773fe2a7b

SQL Server 2008 Developer Training Kit
The SQL Server 2008 Developer Training Kit will help you understand how to build web applications which deeply exploit the rich data types, programming models and new development paradigms in SQL Server 2008.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=e9c68e1b-1e0e-4299-b498-6ab3ca72a6d7

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Books Online (May 2009)
Download the documentation and tutorials for Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=765433f7-0983-4d7a-b628-0a98145bcb97

System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 – Evaluation Edition
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 delivers end-to-end service management of applications and IT services running across the Windows, UNIX and Linux servers in your datacenter.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=93ddf25b-1ef0-4851-81b0-5fb9a2f76181

Events/Webcasts

TechNet Webcast: Fundamentals of Third-Party Security Management (Level 300)
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032416151&Culture=en-US
Monday, June 1, 2009
10:00 A.M.–11:00 A.M. Pacific Time

TechNet Webcast: Configuring with Least Privilege in SQL Server 2008 (Level 300)
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032415806&Culture=en-US
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
8:00 A.M.–9:00 A.M. Pacific Time

TechNet Webcast: Considerations for Large-Scale SharePoint Server Deployments on SQL Server (Level 300)
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032414992&Culture=en-US
Thursday, June 4, 2009
8:00 A.M.–9:00 A.M. Pacific Time

TechNet Webcast: Upgrading to SQL Server 2008: Compatibility Testing Methods and Best Practices (Level 300)
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032415504&Culture=en-US
Thursday, June 11, 2009
8:00 A.M.–9:00 A.M. Pacific Time

New KB's

Other
SQL Svr Compact Edtn 3.5 AL: FIX: Some rows are deleted when you repair a database by using the Repair method together with the RepairOption.RecoverCorruptedRows option in SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition and in SQL Server Compact 3.5
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967963/EN-US

SQL Svr Compact Edtn 3.5 AL: FIX: Non-convergence occurs when you synchronize a SQL Server Compact 3.5 client database with the server by using Sync Services for ADO.NET in a Hub-And-Spoke configuration
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969858/EN-US

SQL 2000
SQL Svr 2000 Reporting Svcs EN: FIX: The Internet Explorer process crashes when you print or preview a report by using the RSClientPrint control that is included in SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services in two separate browsers
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960862/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2000 EN: BUG: Cannot connect to a clustered named instance through a firewall (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318432/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2000 EN: SQL Server is not supported on Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 Terminal Server application server (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/327270/EN-US

SQL Svr Std Edtn 2000 SP3 EN: General guidelines to use to configure the MAXDOP option (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/329204/EN-US

SQL Svr Std Edtn 2000 SP3 EN: Additional SQL Server diagnostics added to detect unreported I/O problems (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826433/EN-US

SQL 2005
JDBC Driver for SQL Server 2005: FIX: The certificate that was used to sign classes in the Microsoft SQL Server JDBC driver has expired in SQL Server JDBC Driver version 1.2 (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969619/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: A mining model of the Microsoft Decision Tree algorithm generates incorrect nodes when you set the MINIMUM_SUPPORT parameter to "9" in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services or in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968290/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: Measures, measure groups, and dimensions that are not part of a perspective are exposed incorrectly when you create a grouping on the perspective in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services or in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968900/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: Some cell values are doubled when you run an MDX query against a database that has the AllowedSet permission set for a dimension in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services or in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969588/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 EN: How to troubleshoot orphaned connections in SQL Server (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/137983/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The SQL Server engine in SQL Server 2005 and in SQL Server 2008 may consume large amounts of memory during the setup configuration phase (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967522/EN-US

SQL Svr Mobile Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you try to insert a row or perform other database operations in a SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition database: "Wrong page (potential database corruption)" (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923979/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: The SQL Server 2005 service pack installation stops unexpectedly, and the following error message is logged in the setup log file: "Unable to install Windows Installer MSP file" (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926622/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: An Incremental Servicing Model is available from the SQL Server team to deliver hotfixes for reported problems (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935897/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: The SQL Server 2005 builds that were released after SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 was released (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937137/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error messages after SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2000 has been running for some time on Windows Server 2003 or on Windows 2000: "Failed to load FileName.dll" and "Attempts to load any type of dll might fail within the SQL Server process" (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941105/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Error messages when you create a snapshot backup of many databases at the same time in SQL Server: "ERROR Selected writer 'Microsoft Writer (Service State)' is in failed state" (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943471/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you create a WMI event alert by using the sp_add_alert stored procedure in a SQL Server 2005 cluster: "The @wmi_query could not be executed in the @wmi_namespace provided" (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960552/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: When you run a query that uses the NOLOCK table hint in SQL Server 2005 or in SQL Server 2008 to retrieve BLOB data, the query runs very slowly (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961049/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The tempdb database is corrupted when you start some transactions that use the snapshot isolation level on a database that has row versioning enabled in SQL Server 2005 (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961739/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The CPU usage and the memory usage increase gradually and many session IDs are in the dormant status in SQL Server 2005 and in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961811/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: An incorrect backup set is listed when you restore a database from a backup file by using SQL Server Management Studio in SQL Server 2005 or in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/965217/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: You obtain incorrect values for a column when you use the OPENROWSET function to import data from a data file by using an XML format file in SQL Server 2005 or in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967206/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: When you run a stored procedure that contains a query that uses the FOR XML EXPLICIT clause, you may obtain a schema that is badly formed in SQL Server 2005 or in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967337/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: You receive an incorrect result when you enable the ANSI_NULLS database option and run a query against an indexed view in SQL Server 2005 or in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967983/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A query that runs in parallel on a multiprocessor computer returns incorrect results in SQL Server 2005 or in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968449/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you send an e-mail by using Database Mail in SQL Server 2005 or in SQL Server 2008: "The operation has timed out" (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968834/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Distribution Agent fails when you try to apply a snapshot for a newly added view in a publication in SQL Server 2005 or in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969775/EN-US

SQL Svr Std Edtn 2005 64Bit EN: FIX: Error message when you run a query in SQL Server 2005 or in SQL Server 2008: "Internal Query Processor Error: The query processor could not produce a query plan" (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961106/EN-US

SQL 2008
SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: You receive a warning about the network binding order on the Setup Support Rules page when you install SQL Server 2008 in a failover cluster (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955963/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: The SQL Server 2008 builds that were released after SQL Server 2008 was released (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956909/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: Microsoft ODBC drivers can return unexpected results when using parameter markers after any function in a T-SQL Statement
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971249/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: PRB: 'Script table as' reports an error for linked servers created using MSDASQL provider in SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971261/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The About, Execute, and Close buttons are missing when you run the Execute Package Utility in the Chinese (Taiwan) version of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956021/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Support policy for Microsoft SQL Server products that are running in a hardware virtualization environment (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956893/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you try to create a WMI event alert by using the sp_add_alert stored procedure in SQL Server 2008: "The @wmi_query could not be executed in the @wmi_namespace provided" (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960573/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: SQL Server 2008 Database Auditing shows query criteria as a parameterized value instead of the actual record
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967552/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: An access violation occurs when you run the DBCC CLEANTABLE statement for a table that has a column of the bit data type in SQL Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968080/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you try to bulk insert data into a table that contains a DATE type column that uses a US date format in SQL Server 2008: "Bulk load data conversion error"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968215/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message is logged in the SQL Server 2008 Errorlog file when you perform operations on some temporary tables in SQL Server 2008: "Time out occurred while waiting for buffer latch" (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968543/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: SQL Server 2008 Integration Services Import and Export Wizard does not provide the ConnectionString property for the .NET Framework Data Provider for ODBC
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968615/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you perform an online index rebuild operation for a table that has no clustered index in SQL Server 2008: "Location: pageref.cpp:913 Expression: IS_OFF"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968740/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: You receive asserts after you delete a row that contains BLOB data from a SQL Server 2008 database
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968741/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you rebuild a table that has sparse columns in SQL Server 2008: "Cannot alter table '<TableName>' because the table either contains sparse columns or a column set column which are incompatible with compression" (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968742/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: When you design a SQL Server 2008 report in Visual Studio 2008, no data is returned for a dataset that retrieves data from an XML Web Service by using a query that calls a Web service method
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969131/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you run an MDX query in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Service: "The Extract function was called with hierarchy '' that does not exist in the set"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969235/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: SQL Server 2008 Report Designer renders numbers in an order opposite to what you expect when you add a special character to a Textbox control that contains both Hebrew characters and numbers
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969357/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The cascading report parameters are inconsistent in a SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services report that contains three or more levels of cascading report parameters
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969453/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you run a query that uses the CASE function in SQL Server 2008: "Conversion failed when converting the <Type1> value ‘<A value>’ to data type <Type2>."
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969467/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: When you read an input column by using the managed code within a script component in a SQL Server 2008 Integration Services package, some meaningless characters are added to the returned data
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969513/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Cumulative update package 5 for SQL Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969531/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you run a job whose owner is a Windows user account after SQL Server 2008 Agent is restarted: "The job failed. The owner () of job <Job Name> does not have server access"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969611/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: All SQL Server 2008 database engine performance counters appear to be missing when you try to monitor the performance counters through WMI interfaces
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969653/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you click the Columns tab in OLE DB Source Editor in SQL Server 2008 Integration Services: "Error at Data Flow Task [OLE DB Source [1]]: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_OLEDBERROR"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969793/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Stop error message when you install SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 or SQL Server 2008 on a Windows XP-based computer that is earlier than Windows XP SP3: "CRITICAL_OBJECT_TERMINATION"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969936/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: You receive an incorrect result when you query data from a linked server that is created by using an index OLE DB provider in SQL Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969997/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Support for Locked Pages on SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition 64-bit systems
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970070/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you open Replication Monitor for a transactional or merge publication in an instance of SQL Server 2008 that is an upgrade from SQL Server 2000: "Cannot insert the value NULL into column 'isagentrunningnow'"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970150/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The data collector is disabled after you install an update for an instance of SQL Server 2008 (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970160/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: You receive a "File system error" error message that mentions a temporary file when you process a cube in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970184/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: You receive an incorrect result when you run a query that uses the row_number function in SQL Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970198/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you create a report that uses a SAP NetWeaver BI data source in SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services: "The method specified is not supported by the current provider. (Microsoft Visual Studio)"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970255/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A performance issue occurs when you run a full-text query that contains the "AND NOT" clause in SQL Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970287/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Cumulative update package 2 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970315/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Queries from a query notification that has a lot of subscriptions run slowly when you change the Auto Close option to False in SQL Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970349/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: The SQL Server 2008 builds that were released after SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 was released (Updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970365/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: An MDX query that contains the Aggregate function incorrectly returns a NULL value for a calculated measure in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970461/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: SQL Server 2008 setup may fail with "Setup Failure in SetupActionName: cusetfeatureinstallstateaction " error message
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970667/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: SQL Server 2008 specific folders are created on systems with SQL Server 2005 starting SP3 and above to prevent upgrade failures to SQL Server 2008 at a later time
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970669/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: SQL Server 2008 setup may fail with an unknown exception on MSVCR80.DLL
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970771/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: You may get "Error 1316.A network error occurred while attempting to read from the file Path\SSCERuntime-ENU.msi" error message when you repair an instance SQL Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970876/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: You may receive a "FCB::RemoveAlternateStreams: Operating system error <error number>" when starting up databases on an instance of SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970878/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Quotation marks are rendered incorrectly when you export a SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services report to a .csv file
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971064/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you create a SharePoint subscription on a SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services report that uses cascading parameters: "This report requires a default or user-defined value for the report parameter '<Parameter>'"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971068/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The Data Profiling task shows "is_nullable" in the Control Flow window after you configure the Data Profiling task for a data source that uses the Turkish_CI_AS or Turkish_CS_AS collation in SQL Server 2008 Integration Services
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971125/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The HTML format of a SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services report is not compliant with section 1194.22 standards in the Section 508 standards
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971132/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Connection to SAP NetWeaver from SQL 2008 Reporting services reports "The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971267/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: SQL Server 2008 setup program may fail with an unhandled exception when installing from a network location
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971269/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: PRB: The certificate that was used to sign classes in the Microsoft SQL Server JDBC driver has expired in SQL Server JDBC Driver versions 1.0, 1.1
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971270/EN-US

April 2009 - Technical Rollup Mail - SQL

Justin Zarb — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:00:00 GMT

News

Technical RollUp

http://blogs.technet.com/trm/default.aspx

Documents

Auditing in SQL Server 2008

http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/F/B/CFB498D0-37B0-4805-9B41-EE2FCA3F1196/SQL%20Sustainability%20Technical%20White%20Paper.doc

With SQL Server Audit, SQL Server 2008 introduces an important new feature that provides a true auditing solution for enterprise customers. While SQL Trace can be used to satisfy many auditing needs, SQL Server Audit offers a number of attractive advantages that may help DBAs more easily achieve their goals such as meeting regulatory compliance requirements.

Geo-Replication Performance Gains with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Running on Windows Server 2008

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd263442.aspx

Microsoft.com Engineering Operations (MSCOM Ops), the team responsible for architecting and managing many of the most heavily trafficked Microsoft Web sites, recently documented substantial replication performance improvements for both push and pull subscriptions in Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 running on Windows Server® 2008—up to 100 times faster than Microsoft SQL Server 2005 running on Windows Server 2003. This paper provides IT pros with an in-depth look at the tests conducted by the MSCOM Ops team, insight into the results, and technical analysis of the enhancements to Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 that enable wide area network (WAN)–based geo-replication.

Connectivity Options for Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Integration Services

http://download.microsoft.com/download/F/F/2/FF2351B6-EFF1-46E5-8425-7A6CD6661253/Connectivity%20Options%20for%20Microsoft%20SQL%20Server%202008%20Integration%20Services.xps

This white paper provides an overview of the connectivity options that are available with SQL Server 2008 Integration Services. SQL Server 2008 Integration Services supports an ever-expanding range of connectivity options for a wide variety of data sources. New connectors that have an increased the emphasis on performance and the addition of ADO.NET data sources and destinations contribute to making Integration Services an excellent choice for ETL operations.

Managing Unstructured Data with SQL Server 2008

http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/c/d/acd8e043-d69b-4f09-bc9e-4168b65aaa71/SQL2008UnstructuredData.doc

This 11-page paper discusses how Microsoft SQL Server 2008 provides a flexible solution for storing unstructured data and combining it with relational data to build comprehensive solutions that encompass the full range of data across an organization.

What's New for XML in SQL Server 2008

http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/c/d/acd8e043-d69b-4f09-bc9e-4168b65aaa71/WhatsNewSQL2008XML.doc

This 16-page paper discusses how Microsoft SQL Server 2008 builds on the extensive support for XML by extending support for XML schema validation and XQuery, and by enhancing the xml data type.

Practical SQL Server 2008 for Oracle Professionals

http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/9/d/69d1fea7-5b42-437a-b3ba-a4ad13e34ef6/SQLServer2008forOracle.docx

This white paper reviews many of the key comparisons between SQL Server 2008 databases and Oracle databases, and is intended for Oracle professionals looking to extend and use their Oracle knowledge to manage SQL Server.

SQL Server Integration Services with Oracle Database 10g

http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/9/d/69d1fea7-5b42-437a-b3ba-a4ad13e34ef6/OracleSSIS.docx

This paper focuses on the advantages of using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) to extract data from heterogeneous sources and import data into Microsoft SQL Server for Business Intelligence (BI) analysis and reporting. Oracle Database 10g data is used as the primary data source. The audience for this paper includes IT professionals, database administrators, and system architects. The reader should have a general understanding of databases and Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle Database 10g. Readers should use the referenced databases on their preferred hardware platform.

Downloads

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP3 Readme

Before you install Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (SP3), download, extract, and read the SP3 Setup documentation, and review the SP3 Readme files.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d851c39ee-6f9d-47d9-8ecc-44ac1e9dc182%26displaylang%3den

Improving Microsoft Dynamics CRM Performance and Securing Data with Microsoft SQL Server 2008

This paper provides an overview, benchmark results, and recommendations for implementing selected Microsoft SQL Server 2008 features that can improve the performance of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and secure the CRM database.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d6a4a6556-a8c7-49c8-9a5c-6107fee6703e%26displaylang%3den

Using Analysis Services with the Project Server 2007 Cube Building Service

Walks through the process of creating an Analysis Services repository, and then describes the configuration steps necessary for the Project Server 2007 computer and client computers in order to get the Cube Building Service working properly.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=7&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3daafe81e4-0ead-4017-87f0-d78e2d811635%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007

Download SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007. This package includes two add-ins for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 (Table Analysis Tools and Data Mining Client) and one add-in for Microsoft Office Visio 2007 (Data Mining Templates).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=8&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d8c873841-61a1-444c-a40b-ab62cf136be8%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server Protocol Documentation

The Microsoft SQL Server protocol documentation provides technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols that are implemented and used in Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=9&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d91ef5106-944a-41e1-b3a0-5bd3f2356f32%26displaylang%3den

System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 Documentation

This download contains documentation for System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=10&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dd826b836-59e5-4628-939e-2b852ed79859%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 White Paper: Configuring Kerberos Authentication with Role Centers

How to configure Kerberos authentication for Microsoft SQL Server reporting with Enterprise Portal Role Center pages.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=11&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dbe720eb3-649a-49ff-b019-a1e4e7af6b47%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 White Paper: Configuring Enterprise Portal and Role Centers with SQL Reporting

Checklists and information to help administrators set up and configure Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Enterprise Portal and Role Centers with Microsoft SQL Server reporting.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=12&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d3d2463fc-ea13-40ef-a375-2da2f379652c%26displaylang%3den

Events/Webcasts

SQL 2008

A Live Meeting Webcast: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and SQL Server 2008 - Better Together!

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032408587&EventCategory=2&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

TechNet Webcast: Migrating Databases from Oracle to SQL Server 2008 (Level 300)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032408185&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

TechNet Webcast: Scaling Online Transaction Processing Applications with SQL Server 2008 (Level 300)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032408624&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft does IT: Improving the Sustainability and Use of SQL Server at Microsoft (Level 300)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032408654&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

New KB's

Other

SQL Svr Compact Edtn 3.5 AL: FIX: Error message when you run a "LINQ to Entities" query that uses a string parameter or a binary parameter against a SQL Server Compact 3.5 database: "The ntext and image data types cannot be used in WHERE, HAVING, GROUP BY, ON, or IN clauses"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958478/EN-US

SQL Svr Compact Edtn 3.5 AL: After you execute the SqlCeEngine.Compact method against a SQL Server Compact 3.5 client database that is synchronized to a central database server, some changes to the client database may not be uploaded

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967502/EN-US

SQL 2000

SQL Svr 2000 Desktop Engine: INF: New Switches in MSDE Service Pack 3 Setup (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810826/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2000 EN: How to impede Windows NT administrators from administering a clustered instance of SQL Server (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/263712/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2000 EN: BUG: Database maintenance plan on system databases fails on integrity check if "Attempt to repair minor problems" is selected (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290622/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2000 EN: MS09-004: Description of the security update for SQL Server 2000 GDR and for MSDE 2000: February 10, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960082/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2000 EN: MS09-004: Description of the security update for SQL Server 2000 QFE and for MSDE 2000: February 10, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960083/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2000 EN: You cannot apply security update 960082 in a Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 environment

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967092/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2000 EN: ISA Server 2004 and ISA Server 2006 may be affected by the security updates in Microsoft Knowledge Base articles 960082 and 960083

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967094/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2000 EN: SharePoint users are incorrectly offered a SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (Windows) update when they try to install the security update in Microsoft Knowledge Base article 960082

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967096/EN-US

SQL 2005

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2: MS09-004: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft SQL Server could allow remote code execution

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959420/EN-US

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2: MS09-004: Description of the security update for SQL Server 2005 GDR: February 10, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960089/EN-US

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2: MS09-004: Description of the security update for SQL Server 2005 QFE: February 10, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960090/EN-US

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2: The Windows Internal Database (WYukon) is removed when you use the Add or Remove Programs item in Control Panel to uninstall a security update for SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967095/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: How to configure SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services to use Kerberos authentication (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917409/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: Error message when you run some Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) queries that reference some calculated members in many connections at the same time in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services: "An unexpected error occurred"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960971/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: Error message when you run a Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) query that contains a calculation in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services: "An unexpected exception occurred"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960977/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: You cannot connect to an instance of SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services through HTTP when you configure Internet Explorer to use a .pac file

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961146/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: A syntax error occurs when you try to use the lift chart to validate a mining model that uses an Oracle data source in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961920/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: Error message when you synchronize a database in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services: "Errors in the metadata manager. The dimension with ID of '<Dimension ID>', Name of '<Dimension Name>' referenced by the '<Cube Name>' cube, does not exist"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967625/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Reporting Svcs EN: FIX: You are prompted to provide the credentials when you view a history snapshot for a SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services report if you use stored credentials for the data source of the report

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967180/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Reporting Svcs EN: Error message when you try to print a SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services report on a client computer: "Unable to load client print control"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967511/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Reporting Svcs EN: FIX: Error message when you try to export a report to a PDF file in SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services: "Non-negative number required"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967618/EN-US

SQL Svr Developer Edtn 2005 EN: How to use Kerberos authentication in SQL Server (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319723/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 EN: How to resolve permission issues when you move a database between servers that are running SQL Server (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/240872/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 EN: How to change the SQL Server or SQL Server Agent service account without using SQL Enterprise Manager in SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server Configuration Manager in SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/283811/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 EN: How to move databases between computers that are running SQL Server (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314546/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 EN: How to configure an instance of SQL Server to listen on a specific TCP port or a dynamic port (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823938/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 EN: You may not be able to connect to an instance of SQL Server by using an anonymous login (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/839569/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 EN: SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 is not successfully updated when you try to install or to uninstall a security update (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957008/EN-US

SQL Svr Express Edtn 2005 EN: Error message when you use the SQL Server Error and Usage Reporting tool on a 64-bit Windows operating system: "The Error Reports Location path name cannot be empty"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967598/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: The SQL Server service cannot start when you change a startup parameter for a clustered instance of SQL Server 2000 or of SQL Server 2005 to a value that is not valid (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912397/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: How to use the Sqldumper.exe utility to generate a dump file in SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917825/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: You may experience a decrease in query performance after you perform certain database maintenance operations or regular transaction operations in SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917828/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Error message when you install SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008: "The file C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\[version_number]\mscorlib.tlb could not be loaded" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918685/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: The use of third-party detours or similar techniques is not supported in SQL Server (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920925/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: How to make unwanted access to SQL Server 2005 by an operating system administrator more difficult (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932881/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Description of the SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) service and of alternatives to clustering the SSIS service (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942176/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: You cannot restore a database from a backup file when you use a SQL Server login ID that has the dbcreator server role to connect to an instance of SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950891/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Cumulative update package 8 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951217/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you install Cumulative Update 10, Cumulative Update 9, or security update 954606 (security bulletin MS08-052) for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 on a drive that uses the FAT32 file system: "Unexpected Error Occurred" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959132/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: The SQL Server 2005 builds that were released after SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 was released (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960598/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The SQL Server service stops when you run one of the DBCC CHECK commands on a SQL Server 2005 database or when you create a database snapshot for a SQL Server 2005 database

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961123/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: You cannot kill a session that is running a query on a linked server in SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961237/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: When you insert a string to a table by using the SQL Native Client (SNAC) OLE DB provider or the SNAC ODBC provider in a SQL Server 2005-based application, the string is truncated

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961396/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: An unresolved deadlock occurs when you perform an online reindex operation that runs on parallel threads in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961479/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The tempdb database is corrupted when you start some transactions that use the snapshot isolation level on a database that has row versioning enabled in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961739/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Cumulative update package 2 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961930/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A query notification is not fired correctly if the query contains inner joins and the IS NULL clause in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961935/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you synchronize data for a SQL Server Compact Edition subscriber in SQL Server 2005: "A call to SQL Server Reconciler failed. Try to resynchronize. HRESULT 0x80004005 (29006)"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/962003/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you run an UPDATE statement on a database that has the SNAPSHOT or READ COMMITTED SNAPSHOT isolation level enabled in SQL Server 2005: "The Database ID <Database ID>, Page (<N>:<N>), slot <N> for LOB data type node does not exist"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/962209/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Cumulative update package 12 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/962970/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The execution plan does not use the forced index when you use the INDEX optimizer hint in a query that runs against a synonym in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/963684/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: When you run an UPDATE statement against a table that has a FOR UPDATE trigger that joins the DELETED and INSERTED tables, the query takes a long time to finish

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967169/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you open Replication Monitor for a transactional publication in SQL Server 2005: "Initial snapshot for publication <PublicationName> is not available"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967192/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The values of some SQL Server 2005 SSIS pipeline counters are always 0 when you try to view them in a terminal session

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967316/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you apply a snapshot file that is exactly divisible by 1 MB in SQL Server 2005: "The process could not bulk copy into table dbo.<tablename>. (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 20253)"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967527/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: An empty result set is returned when you run an SSIS package that contains an Execute SQL task in SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967570/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941154/EN-US

SQL 2008

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine Input/Output Requirements

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967576/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: When you attempt to install SQL Server 2008 from DVD, the Full Text Search Installation may fail if you have installed SQL Server 2008 Express Edition previously

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967103/EN-US

March 2009 - Technical Rollup Mail - SQL Server

conuktrm — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:34:00 GMT

News

Technical RollUp

http://blogs.technet.com/trm/default.aspx

Documents

Database Encryption in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc278098.aspx

Protecting SQL Server with System Center Data Protection Manager 2007

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=123896

Predictive Analysis with SQL Server 2008

http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/9/D/69D1FEA7-5B42-437A-B3BA-A4AD13E34EF6/SQL2008PredictAnalysis.docx

Managing Unstructured Data with SQL Server 2008

http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/c/d/acd8e043-d69b-4f09-bc9e-4168b65aaa71/SQL2008UnstructuredData.doc

SQL Server 2008 Compared to Oracle Database 11g

http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/9/d/69d1fea7-5b42-437a-b3ba-a4ad13e34ef6/SQL2008_vs_Oracle11g.docx

Downloads

Improving Microsoft Dynamics CRM Performance and Securing Data with Microsoft SQL Server 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d6a4a6556-a8c7-49c8-9a5c-6107fee6703e%26displaylang%3den

Using Analysis Services with the Project Server 2007 Cube Building Service

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=7&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3daafe81e4-0ead-4017-87f0-d78e2d811635%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=8&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d8c873841-61a1-444c-a40b-ab62cf136be8%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server Protocol Documentation

The Microsoft SQL Server protocol documentation provides technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols that are implemented and used in Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=9&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d91ef5106-944a-41e1-b3a0-5bd3f2356f32%26displaylang%3den

System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 Documentation

This download contains documentation for System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1.

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 White Paper: Configuring Kerberos Authentication with Role Centers

How to configure Kerberos authentication for Microsoft SQL Server reporting with Enterprise Portal Role Center pages.

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 White Paper: Configuring Enterprise Portal and Role Centers with SQL Reporting

Checklists and information to help administrators set up and configure Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Enterprise Portal and Role Centers with Microsoft SQL Server reporting.

Events/Webcasts

MSDN Webcast: Building Applications with SQL Server 2008 (Level 100)

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 adds numerous new capabilities for developers, from support for spatial data types to a mechanism to store SQL BLOB data using the NTFS file system and several things in between.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032402868&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

TechNet Webcast: Governing Your Enterprise with Policy-Based Management (Level 300)

Policy-Based Management is an essential new feature to maintain configuration consistency across large distributed environments, enforce strict regulatory requirements, and manage the complexity of Microsoft SQL Server instances throughout the enterprise

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032402179&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

TechNet Webcast: SQL Server 2008 Capabilities for Meeting PCI Compliance Needs (Level 200)

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) is a preventative standard intended to reduce the risk of payment card fraud and information theft.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032404173&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Microsoft Certification Coaching Session: Preparing for your Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Implementation and Maintenance Exam (70-432) (session 1)

Take advantage of this coaching session hosted by a Microsoft Certified Trainer to help prepare for your Microsoft Certification exam.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032404570&EventCategory=2&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Microsoft Certification Coaching Session: Preparing for your Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Implementation and Maintenance Exam (70-432) (session 2)

Take advantage of this coaching session hosted by a Microsoft Certified Trainer to help prepare for your Microsoft Certification exam.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032404571&EventCategory=2&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

New KB's

Other

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958478/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967502/EN-US

SQL 2000

SQL Svr 2000 Desktop Engine: INF: New Switches in MSDE Service Pack 3 Setup (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810826/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2000 EN: How to impede Windows NT administrators from administering a clustered instance of SQL Server (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/263712/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2000 EN: BUG: Database maintenance plan on system databases fails on integrity check if "Attempt to repair minor problems" is selected (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290622/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2000 EN: FIX: SQL Server Text Formatting Functions Contain Unchecked Buffers (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304850/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2000 EN: MS09-004: Description of the security update for SQL Server 2000 GDR and for MSDE 2000: February 10, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960082/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2000 EN: MS09-004: Description of the security update for SQL Server 2000 QFE and for MSDE 2000: February 10, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960083/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2000 EN: You cannot apply security update 960082 in a Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 environment

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967092/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2000 EN: ISA Server 2004 and ISA Server 2006 may be affected by the security updates in Microsoft Knowledge Base articles 960082 and 960083

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967094/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967096/EN-US

SQL 2005

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2: MS09-004: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft SQL Server could allow remote code execution

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959420/EN-US

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2: MS09-004: Description of the security update for SQL Server 2005 GDR: February 10, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960089/EN-US

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2: MS09-004: Description of the security update for SQL Server 2005 QFE: February 10, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960090/EN-US

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2: The Windows Internal Database (WYukon) is removed when you use the Add or Remove Programs item in Control Panel to uninstall a security update for SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967095/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: How to configure SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services to use Kerberos authentication (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917409/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: Error message when you connect to an instance of SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services by using the AMO library that is included with SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 Analysis Services: "Cannot connect to Analysis Services version '10.0.1600.22'" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936081/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: Error message when you run an MDX query in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services after you install cumulative update 7 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2: "The SQL Server Analysis Services (<InstanceName>) service terminated unexpectedly" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955374/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: MDX queries that use the EXCEPT function in the WHERE clause run much slower after you install a hotfix or a cumulative update whose version is later than the version of Cumulative Update 4 for SQL Server 2005 SP2 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958500/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: You may be unable to cancel an MDX query that uses the NonEmpty function on a large set in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958549/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: Error message when you run a DB2 query that uses the WITH UR query hint in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services: "OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: An unexpected token "WITH" was found following "<Query>""

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959026/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: Error message when you run two MDX queries on different connections at the same time in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services or in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services: "Transaction errors: The lock operation ended unsuccessfully because of deadlock" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960562/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: An incorrect result is returned when you run a Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) query in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960611/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960971/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960977/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: You cannot connect to an instance of SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services through HTTP when you configure Internet Explorer to use a .pac file

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961146/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: A syntax error occurs when you try to use the lift chart to validate a mining model that uses an Oracle data source in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961920/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967625/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Reporting Svcs EN: FIX: When you export a SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services report that contains an image to a .pdf format file, the .pdf file is displayed incorrectly

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953941/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Reporting Svcs EN: Best practices for changing the service account for the report server in SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958999/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Reporting Svcs EN: FIX: Error message when you view a SQL Server Reporting Services report in the ReportViewer control in Visual Studio 2008: "Object reference not set to an instance of an object"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959595/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967180/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Reporting Svcs EN: Error message when you try to print a SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services report on a client computer: "Unable to load client print control"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967511/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Reporting Svcs EN: FIX: Error message when you try to export a report to a PDF file in SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services: "Non-negative number required"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967618/EN-US

SQL Svr Developer Edtn 2005 EN: How to use Kerberos authentication in SQL Server (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319723/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 EN: How to resolve permission issues when you move a database between servers that are running SQL Server (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/240872/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/283811/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 EN: How to move databases between computers that are running SQL Server (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314546/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 EN: How to enable SSL encryption for an instance of SQL Server by using Microsoft Management Console (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316898/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 EN: How to identify your SQL Server version and edition (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321185/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 EN: Description of TCP/IP settings that you may have to adjust when SQL Server connection pooling is disabled (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328476/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 EN: How to configure an instance of SQL Server to listen on a specific TCP port or a dynamic port (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823938/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 EN: You may not be able to connect to an instance of SQL Server by using an anonymous login (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/839569/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 EN: SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 is not successfully updated when you try to install or to uninstall a security update (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957008/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Log Reader Agent fails with error code 18834 in SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958684/EN-US

SQL Svr Express Edtn 2005 EN: Error message when you use the SQL Server Error and Usage Reporting tool on a 64-bit Windows operating system: "The Error Reports Location path name cannot be empty"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967598/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Changes to the readme file for SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907284/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912397/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: How to obtain the latest service pack for SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913089/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: How to use the Sqldumper.exe utility to generate a dump file in SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917825/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917828/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918685/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: The use of third-party detours or similar techniques is not supported in SQL Server (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920925/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Error message when you try to install a SQL Server 2005 service pack or a SQL Server 2005 hotfix package: "Error 29528. The setup has encountered an unexpected error while Setting Internal Properties" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925976/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: SQL Server timing values may be incorrect when you use utilities or technologies that change CPU frequencies (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931279/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: How to make unwanted access to SQL Server 2005 by an operating system administrator more difficult (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932881/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Cumulative update package 3 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939537/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Description of the SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) service and of alternatives to clustering the SSIS service (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942176/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Cumulative update package 5 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943656/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Description of the Replay Markup Language (RML) Utilities for SQL Server (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944837/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The full-text search engine stops responding intermittently, the CPU utilization is high, and all full-text queries are blocked when you use full-text search in SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945996/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you run a full-text search query in SQL Server 2005: "Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948452/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: You cannot restore a database from a backup file when you use a SQL Server login ID that has the dbcreator server role to connect to an instance of SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950891/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Cumulative update package 8 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951217/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: On a computer that has a multicore processor, if the ratio of the logical processors to the physical sockets is not divisible by two, you cannot install SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954835/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you try to install SQL Server 2005: "[Microsoft][SQL Native Client][SQL Server]The certificate cannot be dropped because one or more entities are either signed or encrypted using it" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955920/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: You may obtain an incorrect result when you use a cursor to perform DML operations on a table that does not have a clustered index in SQL Server 2008 or in SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956254/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: When you run a query that contains a JOIN operation in SQL Server 2005, and the ON clause of the JOIN operator contains a LIKE predicate, the query runs slower than in SQL Server 2000 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956686/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A time-out setting is not available for the Web Service task in a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS) package (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956911/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: You receive an error message that the file is being used by another process when you try to rename or move an output file from a job in SQL Server Agent in SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957357/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The file growth setting is incorrect after you restore a database from SQL Server 2000 in SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958004/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The size of the SQL Server 2005 error log file or of the SQL Server 2008 error log file grows very quickly when query notifications are created and destroyed in a high ratio (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958006/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The values of the datetime column are not same for the rows that are copied when you copy data to a table by using the GETDATE() function in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958547/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you restore a transaction log for a database by using the STANDBY option in SQL Server 2005: "The transaction log for database '<DatabaseName>' is full" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958554/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A SQL Server Agent job that creates a ServerXMLHTTP object by using an ActiveX script remains in the Executing status and is never completed in SQL Server 2008 or in SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958555/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A memory leak occurs when you repeatedly invoke a trigger that contains the RAISERROR statement by using a SQLCLR stored procedure in SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958573/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Cumulative update package 11 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958735/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: When you validate a publication in a transactional replication, articles that you added after you added a vertical filter to an article are not validated in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959000/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The Log Reader Agent skips some transactions when the Log Reader Agent runs to replicate transactions for a transactional replication in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959001/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Only the first command in a transaction is replicated to the subscriber when you set the MaxCmdsInTran parameter of Log Reader Agent to 1 in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959003/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: When a process that is running on an instance of SQL Server 2005 consumes a large amount of memory, dump files are generated in the folder that contains the SQL Server error log

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959004/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Database mirroring sessions may stop intermittently in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959006/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you use SQL Server Service Broker in SQL Server 2005: "Failed Virtual Allocate Bytes: FAIL_VIRTUAL_RESERVE 589824"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959007/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you start database mirroring in SQL Server 2005 on a database that is restored or upgraded from SQL Server 2000: "The Service Broker ID for the remote copy of database "<DatabaseName>" does not match the ID on the principal server"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959008/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Target endpoints in Service Broker of SQL Server 2005 leak in the valid message exchange pattern where the target sends only the end conversation message

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959009/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when an application that uses Service Broker sends messages in SQL Server 2005: "The conversation endpoint is not in a valid state for SEND"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959010/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: When you shrink a database that has the SNAPSHOT transaction isolation level enabled in SQL Server 2005, the shrink operation is not completed successfully (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959012/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The synchronization process is slow, and the CPU usage is high on the computer that is configured as the Distributor in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959013/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A conflict with the foreign key constraint occurs when you update the case of the column values in the primary key table or you pad column values in the primary key table in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959015/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Rows that include a NULL column may not be deleted when you delete rows from a table by using "<ImageColumnName> is NULL" as the condition in the WHERE clause in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959016/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: You receive an incorrect result when you query a column of the varchar(max) data type that contains only one character from a table in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959017/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: You receive an incorrect result when you run a query that uses the LIKE operator in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959019/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: When you use a CASE function that returns constants of the binary data type, some constants are trimmed incorrectly even after you run the SET ANSI_PADDING ON statement in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959020/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A blocking issue occurs when you run the Merge Agent in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959023/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: When the Merge Agent synchronizes multiple batches of changes, the synchronization may take a long time to finish or the synchronization may expire unexpectedly in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959024/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you parse a query after you run the SET XACT_ABORT ON statement in SQL Server 2005: ".Net SqlClient Data Provider: A severe error occurred on the current command" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959028/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: If you enter many rows into the Fuzzy Grouping transformation, you may obtain an incorrect result in SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959030/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you try to expand the Catalogs node for a linked server that links to a Teradata Database in SQL Server 2005: "Cannot obtain the schema rowset DBSCHEMA_CATALOGS for OLE DB provider SQL Server for linked server (null)" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959031/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A peer-to-peer transactional replication does not replicate rows if you rebuild the index for a published table at the same time as you insert data in the published table in SQL Server 2005 or in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959032/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959132/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: How to customize the quota for the TokenAndPermUserStore cache store in SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959823/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Some changes may not be replicated to the subscriber correctly in SQL Server 2005 or in SQL Server 2008 when the sum of the parameters exceeds 2,100 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959893/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A significant delay occurs after you cancel a query on a client computer that connects to SQL Server 2005 across a slow link (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960110/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The changes to the data source of a SQL Server 2005 Integration Services package may be lost when the package is run by a job (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960161/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: You may encounter a deadlock scenario when you use table variables in SQL Server 2005 or in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960283/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Error message when you install SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 on Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008: "Visual Studio 2005 has a known compatibility issue with this version of Windows" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960320/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: When you run the ALTER TRIGGER statement for a trigger in a merge publication in SQL Server 2005 or in SQL Server 2008, a change is not replicated to the subscriber database (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960542/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you create a WMI event alert by using the sp_add_alert stored procedure in a SQL Server 2005 cluster: "The @wmi_query could not be executed in the @wmi_namespace provided" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960552/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you run a query that selects a column of the xml data type in SQL Server 2005: "'?', hexadecimal value 0xDC55, is an invalid character" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960555/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you try to shrink a database in SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2: "File ID <FileID> of database ID <DatabaseID> cannot be shrunk as it is either being shrunk by another process or is empty" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960567/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A maintenance plan that contains a Rebuild Index task takes much longer to run in SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960570/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The Distribution Agent fails when you perform DML operations in a publication article and a concurrent snapshot is created in SQL Server 2005 or in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960571/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you run the Snapshot Agent for a transactional replication that uses an Oracle 11g publisher in SQL Server 2005 or in SQL Server 2008: "Msg 21613, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_IHsyncmetadata, Line 223" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960574/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Some DML statements that should not be replicated are replicated to the subscribers when you replicate the execution of a stored procedure in a transactional replication in SQL Server 2005 or in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960575/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: The SQL Server 2005 builds that were released after SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 was released (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960598/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Mere Query timeout can lead to fullscale SQLCLR AppDomain unload in some conditions.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960922/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961123/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: You cannot kill a session that is running a query on a linked server in SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961237/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961396/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: An unresolved deadlock occurs when you perform an online reindex operation that runs on parallel threads in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961479/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Error message when you try to create a full-text index in SQL Server 2005: "Full-text crawl manager has not been initialized. Any crawl started before the crawl manager was fully initialized will need to be restarted"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961662/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961739/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Cumulative update package 2 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961930/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A query notification is not fired correctly if the query contains inner joins and the IS NULL clause in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961935/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/962003/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/962209/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: In SQL Server 2005 or 2008, the DTS designer application cannot be started on a Windows Vista-based computer or on a Windows Server 2008-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/962874/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Cumulative update package 12 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/962970/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The execution plan does not use the forced index when you use the INDEX optimizer hint in a query that runs against a synonym in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/963684/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967169/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967192/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The values of some SQL Server 2005 SSIS pipeline counters are always 0 when you try to view them in a terminal session

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967316/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967527/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: An empty result set is returned when you run an SSIS package that contains an Execute SQL task in SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967570/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941154/EN-US

SQL Svr Std Edtn 2005 64Bit EN: FIX: The x64 version of SQL Server 2005 or of SQL Server 2008 may stop responding when you are performing a backup (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960543/EN-US

SQL 2008

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: How to update SQL Server 2008 Setup by running a newer version of the SQL Server 2008 Setup support files (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955392/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: An access violation error message is logged in the SQL Server error log after you upgrade to SQL Server 2008: "Access Violation occurred reading address 00000000"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955831/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: You receive a warning about the network binding order on the Setup Support Rules page when you install SQL Server 2008 in a failover cluster

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955963/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: The SQL Server 2008 builds that were released after SQL Server 2008 was released (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956909/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: Where you can find more information about the SQL Server 2008 builds that were released after SQL Server 2008 and about the SQL Server 2005 builds that were released after SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 and after SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957826/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: How to apply a SQL Server 2008 update to a failover cluster instance (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958734/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you run the DBCC SHRINKFILE command or the DBCC SHRINKDATABASE command on a server that contains a SQL Server 2008 database: "5205 : DBCC SHRINKFILE: Moving Page <FileId>:<PageId> failed" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959376/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: Error message when you start the SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Configuration Manager: "Invalid namespace"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960374/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine Input/Output Requirements

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967576/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: When you download the Report Builder ClickOnce application of SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services or SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services, the Reportbuilder.chm.deploy file is downloaded as the text/html content type instead of the application/octet-str (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956298/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you run the snapshot agent on a replication of a stored procedure in SQL Server 2005 or in SQL Server 2008: "The Name property cannot have a value of @param_name for this version of SQL Server" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956889/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The output from the DBCC MEMORYSTATUS command indicates that the Schema Manager cache uses more buffer space than expected in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958599/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: You may experience issues when you try to expand the Databases node in SQL Server Management Studio, or the sp_spaceused stored procedure takes a long time to run in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958760/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The Disk I/O Usage chart and the Network Usage chart contain incorrect data when you view the Server Activity History report in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958940/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: When you run multiple full-text search queries in parallel in SQL Server 2008, the queries take much longer to finish than if you run them sequentially

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958947/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Cumulative update package 3 for SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960484/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The chart of a mining model is empty when you browse the mining model in Excel 2007 by using SQL Server 2008 Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960566/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you try to create a WMI event alert by using the sp_add_alert stored procedure in SQL Server 2008: "The @wmi_query could not be executed in the @wmi_namespace provided"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960573/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: You receive error 605 and error 824 when you run a query that inserts data into a temporary table in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960770/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Some attributes of a nested table do not appear in a SQL Server 2008 Data Mining model when the data source is a cube

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960771/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Error message when you try to upgrade to SQL Server 2008: "Wait on the Database Engine recovery handle failed"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960781/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you view a mining model in Mining Model Viewer in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services: "Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.Item has already been added"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960864/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: When you use a ReportViewer control to view a SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services report that contains two pages, the formatting for the second page is lost

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960996/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you try to connect to a cube by using a user account that belongs to multiple database roles in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services: "Two sets specified in the function have different dimensionality"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961094/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you run a maintenance plan in SQL Server 2008: "The SQL Server Execute Package Utility requires Integration Services to be installed"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961126/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: In a SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services report that contains several levels, some items disappear when you collapse another item

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961271/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A maintenance plan that contains a Rebuild Index task takes much longer than you expect to run in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961272/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you try to display a report in SQL Server 2008 Management Studio: "System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961282/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: An access violation may occur when you run a query that uses a parallel execution plan in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961283/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: SQL Server service may not start after patch installed

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961301/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The memory usage increases gradually when you frequently back up or restore a database in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961323/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: You receive an error message when you try to parse XML data in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961359/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The page numbers may be hardcoded in the pages after you export a report to Excel format in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961360/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: When you print a report by using the SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Client-Side Printing functionality, the spacing is too small or too large

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961393/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A database audit specification is set to the sysrowsets object instead of the schema object that you specified in SQL Server Management Studio in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961481/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: You receive a “Class not registered” error after you install SQL Server Management Studio 2008 on a computer running SQL Server Management Studio 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961638/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you perform a partition merge in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services: "Detected inconsistency between User define slice and detected slice of partition"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961699/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: When you attempt to install SQL Server 2008 from DVD, the Full Text Search Installation may fail if you have installed SQL Server 2008 Express Edition previously

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967103/EN-US

February 2009 – Technical Rollup Mail – SQL Server

conuktrm — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:01:00 GMT

News

Technical RollUp

http://blogs.technet.com/trm/default.aspx

SQL Release Services
Cumulative Update #3 for SQL Server 2008 RTM

Documents

Best Practices for Semantic Data Modeling for Performance and Scalability

http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/9/4/d948f981-926e-40fa-a026-5bfcf076d9b9/BPSemanticDBModeling.docx

Analysis Services Distinct Count Optimization

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=65df6ebf-9d1c-405f-84b1-08f492af52dd&displaylang=en

Scale-Out Querying with Analysis Services

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/bestpractice/scoqryas.mspx

Server Connectivity How-to Topics (Database Engine)
This section of SQL Server 2008 Books Online contains step-by-step instructions that show how to configure Microsoft SQL Server to accept connections from network clients.

http://technet.microsoft.com/library/ms190608.aspx

Database Engine Connectivity How-to Topics
Configuring connectivity to instances of the Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine includes configuration tasks on both the server and the client computers. In many cases the both computers must be configured to use the same options, such as a common network protocol. Learn more by reviewing topics in this section of SQL Server 2008 Books Online.

http://technet.microsoft.com/library/ms180771.aspx

Connectivity Options for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services
This white paper provides an overview of the connectivity options that are available for SQL Server 2008 Integration Services.

http://technet.microsoft.com/library/dd299429.aspx

Downloads

SQL Server 2008 System Views Map

The Microsoft SQL Server 2008 System Views Map shows the key system views included in SQL Server 2008, and the relationships between them.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d531c53e7-8a2a-4375-8f2f-5d799aa67b5c%26displaylang%3den

SQL Data Services (SDS) SDK (CTP)

This community technology preview (CTP) release of the Software Development Kit for SDS includes tools and client side components useful to developers building applications with SDS.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d0b1fa5c6-ec9d-440b-939e-481dd05f2627%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server JDBC Driver 2.0 CTP (January 2008)

Download the SQL Server JDBC Driver 2.0 CTP, a Type 4 JDBC driver that provides database connectivity through the standard JDBC application program interfaces (APIs) available in Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3df914793a-6fb4-475f-9537-b8fcb776befd%26displaylang%3den

Web Platform Installer 1.0

The Microsoft Web Platform Installer is a free tool that makes it simple to download and install the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform, including the IIS, SQL Server Express, .NET Framework and Visual Web Developer.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=4&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d3a41fac1-ed06-4944-a24d-76c8da31cf7d%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP3 Readme

Before you install Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (SP3), download, extract, and read the SP3 Setup documentation, and review the SP3 Readme files.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d851c39ee-6f9d-47d9-8ecc-44ac1e9dc182%26displaylang%3den

Improving Microsoft Dynamics CRM Performance and Securing Data with Microsoft SQL Server 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d6a4a6556-a8c7-49c8-9a5c-6107fee6703e%26displaylang%3den

Using Analysis Services with the Project Server 2007 Cube Building Service

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=7&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3daafe81e4-0ead-4017-87f0-d78e2d811635%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=8&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d8c873841-61a1-444c-a40b-ab62cf136be8%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server Protocol Documentation

The Microsoft SQL Server protocol documentation provides technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols that are implemented and used in Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=9&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d91ef5106-944a-41e1-b3a0-5bd3f2356f32%26displaylang%3den

System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 Documentation

This download contains documentation for System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1.

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 White Paper: Configuring Kerberos Authentication with Role Centers

How to configure Kerberos authentication for Microsoft SQL Server reporting with Enterprise Portal Role Center pages.

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 White Paper: Configuring Enterprise Portal and Role Centers with SQL Reporting

Checklists and information to help administrators set up and configure Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Enterprise Portal and Role Centers with Microsoft SQL Server reporting.

Events/Webcasts

SQL Server 2008 Hands-On Lab

Learn about the new features in SQL Server 2008 in this one day hands-on lab. Topics include: Resource Governor, Transparent Data Encryption, New Spatial Capabilities, Analysis Services, Managing the Reporting Services Infrastructure

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/InviteOnly.aspx?EventID=F2-36-B4-61-D1-D7-4A-F2-01-E0-5B-50-28-57-28-A0&Culture=en-US

New KB's

SQL 2000

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2000 EN: FIX: SQL Server Text Formatting Functions Contain Unchecked Buffers (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304850/EN-US

SQL 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936081/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955374/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958500/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: You may be unable to cancel an MDX query that uses the NonEmpty function on a large set in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958549/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959026/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960562/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: FIX: An incorrect result is returned when you run a Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) query in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960611/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Reporting Svcs EN: FIX: When you export a SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services report that contains an image to a .pdf format file, the .pdf file is displayed incorrectly

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953941/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Reporting Svcs EN: Best practices for changing the service account for the report server in SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958999/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959595/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 EN: How to enable SSL encryption for an instance of SQL Server by using Microsoft Management Console (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316898/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 EN: How to identify your SQL Server version and edition (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321185/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 EN: Description of TCP/IP settings that you may have to adjust when SQL Server connection pooling is disabled (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328476/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Log Reader Agent fails with error code 18834 in SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958684/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Changes to the readme file for SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907284/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: How to obtain the latest service pack for SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913089/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925976/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: SQL Server timing values may be incorrect when you use utilities or technologies that change CPU frequencies (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931279/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: The SQL Server 2005 builds that were released after SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 was released (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937137/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Cumulative update package 3 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939537/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Cumulative update package 5 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943656/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Description of the Replay Markup Language (RML) Utilities for SQL Server (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944837/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945996/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you run a full-text search query in SQL Server 2005: "Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948452/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954835/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955920/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956254/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956686/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A time-out setting is not available for the Web Service task in a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS) package (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956911/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957357/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The file growth setting is incorrect after you restore a database from SQL Server 2000 in SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958004/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958006/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958547/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958554/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958555/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A memory leak occurs when you repeatedly invoke a trigger that contains the RAISERROR statement by using a SQLCLR stored procedure in SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958573/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Cumulative update package 11 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958735/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959000/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The Log Reader Agent skips some transactions when the Log Reader Agent runs to replicate transactions for a transactional replication in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959001/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Only the first command in a transaction is replicated to the subscriber when you set the MaxCmdsInTran parameter of Log Reader Agent to 1 in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959003/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959004/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Database mirroring sessions may stop intermittently in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959006/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you use SQL Server Service Broker in SQL Server 2005: "Failed Virtual Allocate Bytes: FAIL_VIRTUAL_RESERVE 589824"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959007/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959008/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Target endpoints in Service Broker of SQL Server 2005 leak in the valid message exchange pattern where the target sends only the end conversation message

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959009/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when an application that uses Service Broker sends messages in SQL Server 2005: "The conversation endpoint is not in a valid state for SEND"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959010/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959012/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The synchronization process is slow, and the CPU usage is high on the computer that is configured as the Distributor in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959013/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959015/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959016/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: You receive an incorrect result when you query a column of the varchar(max) data type that contains only one character from a table in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959017/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: You receive an incorrect result when you run a query that uses the LIKE operator in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959019/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959020/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A blocking issue occurs when you run the Merge Agent in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959023/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959024/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959028/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: If you enter many rows into the Fuzzy Grouping transformation, you may obtain an incorrect result in SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959030/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959031/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959032/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you install Cumulative Update 10 or Cumulative Update 9 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 on a drive that uses the FAT32 file system: "Unexpected Error Occurred" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959132/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Cumulative update package 1 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959195/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: How to customize the quota for the TokenAndPermUserStore cache store in SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959823/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Some changes may not be replicated to the subscriber correctly in SQL Server 2005 or in SQL Server 2008 when the sum of the parameters exceeds 2,100 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959893/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A significant delay occurs after you cancel a query on a client computer that connects to SQL Server 2005 across a slow link (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960110/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The changes to the data source of a SQL Server 2005 Integration Services package may be lost when the package is run by a job (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960161/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: You may encounter a deadlock scenario when you use table variables in SQL Server 2005 or in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960283/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960320/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960542/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960552/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960555/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960567/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A maintenance plan that contains a Rebuild Index task takes much longer to run in SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960570/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960571/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960574/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960575/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: The SQL Server 2005 builds that were released after SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 was released (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960598/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Mere Query timeout can lead to fullscale SQLCLR AppDomain unload in some conditions.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960922/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961662/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: In SQL Server 2005 or 2008, the DTS designer application cannot be started on a Windows Vista-based computer or on a Windows Server 2008-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/962874/EN-US

SQL Svr Std Edtn 2005 64Bit EN: FIX: The x64 version of SQL Server 2005 or of SQL Server 2008 may stop responding when you are performing a backup (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960543/EN-US

SQL 2008

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: How to update SQL Server 2008 Setup by running a newer version of the SQL Server 2008 Setup support files (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955392/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: An access violation error message is logged in the SQL Server error log after you upgrade to SQL Server 2008: "Access Violation occurred reading address 00000000"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955831/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: You receive a warning about the network binding order on the Setup Support Rules page when you install SQL Server 2008 in a failover cluster

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955963/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: The SQL Server 2008 builds that were released after SQL Server 2008 was released (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956909/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957826/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: How to apply a SQL Server 2008 update to a failover cluster instance (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958734/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959376/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: Error message when you start the SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Configuration Manager: "Invalid namespace"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960374/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: Error message when you run the DBCC CHECKDB command on a computer that contains a SQL Server database: "Error 8967"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960791/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956298/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: You cannot add a cluster node when you install SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services and you do not install the SQL Server 2008 Database Engine (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956427/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956889/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The output from the DBCC MEMORYSTATUS command indicates that the Schema Manager cache uses more buffer space than expected in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958599/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958760/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The Disk I/O Usage chart and the Network Usage chart contain incorrect data when you view the Server Activity History report in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958940/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: When you run multiple full-text search queries in parallel in SQL Server 2008, the queries take much longer to finish than if you run them sequentially

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958947/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Cumulative update package 3 for SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960484/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The chart of a mining model is empty when you browse the mining model in Excel 2007 by using SQL Server 2008 Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960566/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960573/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: You receive error 605 and error 824 when you run a query that inserts data into a temporary table in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960770/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Some attributes of a nested table do not appear in a SQL Server 2008 Data Mining model when the data source is a cube

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960771/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Error message when you try to upgrade to SQL Server 2008: "Wait on the Database Engine recovery handle failed"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960781/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960864/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: When you use a ReportViewer control to view a SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services report that contains two pages, the formatting for the second page is lost

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960996/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961094/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you run a maintenance plan in SQL Server 2008: "The SQL Server Execute Package Utility requires Integration Services to be installed"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961126/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: In a SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services report that contains several levels, some items disappear when you collapse another item

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961271/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A maintenance plan that contains a Rebuild Index task takes much longer than you expect to run in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961272/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you try to display a report in SQL Server 2008 Management Studio: "System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961282/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: An access violation may occur when you run a query that uses a parallel execution plan in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961283/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: SQL Server service may not start after patch installed

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961301/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The memory usage increases gradually when you frequently back up or restore a database in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961323/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: You receive an error message when you try to parse XML data in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961359/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The page numbers may be hardcoded in the pages after you export a report to Excel format in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961360/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: When you print a report by using the SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Client-Side Printing functionality, the spacing is too small or too large

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961393/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A database audit specification is set to the sysrowsets object instead of the schema object that you specified in SQL Server Management Studio in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961481/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: You receive a “Class not registered” error after you install SQL Server Management Studio 2008 on a computer running SQL Server Management Studio 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961638/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961699/EN-US

January 2009 - Technical Rollup Mail - SQL Server

Justin Zarb — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:25:00 GMT

News

Technical RollUp

http://blogs.technet.com/trm/default.aspx

Documents

Accessing External Data Sources with Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2005

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa964120(SQL.90).aspx

Accessing SQL Server Databases with PHP

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc793139(SQL.90).aspx

Geo-Replication Performance Gains with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Running on Windows Server 2008

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd263442.aspx

Running SQL Server 2008 in a Hyper-V Environment - Best Practices and Performance Recommendations

http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/9/4/d948f981-926e-40fa-a026-5bfcf076d9b9/SQL2008inHyperV2008.docx

SQL Server Replication: Providing High Availability using Database Mirroring

http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/9/4/d948f981-926e-40fa-a026-5bfcf076d9b9/ReplicationAndDBM.docx

Downloads

CAT.NET V1 CTP

CAT.NET is a binary code analysis tool that helps identify common variants of certain prevailing vulnerabilities that can give rise to common attack vectors such as Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), SQL Injection and XPath Injection.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d0178e2ef-9da8-445e-9348-c93f24cc9f9d%26displaylang%3den

SAP Documents

Technical documentation for SAP implementation on Microsoft Windows platform.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d63d54a72-bc62-43cf-8eae-444935e08b40%26displaylang%3den

CAT.NET V1 CTP 64 bit

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3de0052bba-2d50-4214-b65b-37e5ef44f146%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2005 Books Online (December 2008)

Download an updated version of the documentation and tutorials for Microsoft SQL Server 2005. See the "Additional Information" section for an update on SQL Server Express Books Online.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=4&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dbe6a2c5d-00df-4220-b133-29c1e0b6585f%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2005 SP3

Download Service Pack 3 for Microsoft SQL Server 2005.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dae7387c3-348c-4faa-8ae5-949fdfbe59c4%26displaylang%3den

Feature Pack for SQL Server 2005 December 2008

Download the December 2008 Feature Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2005, a collection of standalone install packages that provide additional value for SQL Server 2005.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d536fd7d5-013f-49bc-9fc7-77dede4bb075%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server Protocol Documentation

The Microsoft SQL Server protocol documentation provides technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols that are implemented and used in Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=7&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d91ef5106-944a-41e1-b3a0-5bd3f2356f32%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services SP3

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services is a free, easy-to use version of SQL Server Express that includes more features and makes it easier than ever to start developing powerful data-driven applications for web or local desktop development.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=8&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3db448b0d0-ee79-48f6-b50a-7c4f028c2e3d%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server Management Studio Express SP3

Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express (SSMSE) is a free, easy-to-use graphical management tool for managing SQL Server 2005 Express Edition and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=9&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d5d76230d-580d-4874-8c7d-93491a29db15%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Toolkit SP3

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Toolkit provides additional tools and resources for SQL Server 2005 Express Edition and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=10&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dd434dc36-a24d-44ee-937e-553c382557e3%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2005 Express Edition SP3

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition is a free, easy-to-use, lightweight version of SQL Server 2005. It is fast and easy to learn, allowing you to quickly develop and deploy dynamic data-driven applications.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=11&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d3181842a-4090-4431-acdd-9a1c832e65a6%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=12&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d8c873841-61a1-444c-a40b-ab62cf136be8%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server Reporting Services Add-in for SharePoint Technologies

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=13&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d0acb75a6-7c1d-4e2b-af69-7e5f9ecad299%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP3 Readme

Before you install Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (SP3), download, extract, and read the SP3 Setup documentation, and review the SP3 Readme files.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=14&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d851c39ee-6f9d-47d9-8ecc-44ac1e9dc182%26displaylang%3den

Web Platform Installer Release Candidate

The Microsoft Web Platform Installer (release candidate) is a free tool that makes it simple to download and install the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform, including the IIS, SQL Server Express, .NET Framework and Visual Web Developer.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=15&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d3a41fac1-ed06-4944-a24d-76c8da31cf7d%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2008 Enterprise and Standard Feature Compare

SQL Server 2008 Enterprise and Standard Feature Compare

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=16&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d31e71958-0004-4230-803a-ebf0e3e1b25c%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server MP for OpsMgr 2007

The Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 provides discovery and monitoring of SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=17&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d8c0f970e-c653-4c15-9e51-6a6cadfca363%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Evaluation: Trial Experience for IT Professionals

Download SQL Server 2008 180-day Trial Software. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is a database platform for large-scale online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing, and e-commerce applications; it is also a business intelligence platform for data analysis and reporting solutions.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=18&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d265f08bc-1874-4c81-83d8-0d48dbce6297%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Evaluation: Trial Experience for Developers

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=19&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d6b10c7c1-4f97-42c4-9362-58d4d088cd38%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2008 RDL Spec

SQL Server 2008 RDL Spec

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=20&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d2a20c7af-52e8-4882-bd24-9479b3c7517d%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft® Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR

Microsoft® Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR implements support for SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=21&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dbb3ad767-5f69-4db9-b1c9-8f55759846ed%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Technical Reference Guide

This 490-page document covers the essential phases and steps to upgrade existing instances of SQL Server 2000 and 2005 to SQL Server 2008 by using best practices. These include preparation tasks, upgrade tasks, and post-upgrade tasks. It is intended to be a supplement to SQL Server 2008 Books Online.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=22&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d66d3e6f5-6902-4fdd-af75-9975aea5bea7%26displaylang%3den

Events/Webcasts

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 Now Available

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/sqlserver/bb895958.aspx

High Performance Computing (HPC)

Traditional computing takes the form of an application running on a server or workstation. All of the commands for the application are processed on the local system. High Performance Computing (HPC) instead uses the processing power of multiple systems to process the commands for an application. Distributing the processing load across multiple systems allows for faster processing of the data.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/dd353223.aspx

TechNet Webcast: Protect SQL Server 2008 with Data Protection Manager 2007 (Level 300)

Are you deploying or migrating to Microsoft SQL Server 2008? Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 is designed for the database administrator or the IT generalist. Data Protection Manager 2007 uses wizards and workflows to help ensure that you can protect your organization's data, and it doesn't require an advanced degree, training, or certification in storage and backup technologies. Attend this webcast to learn more.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/detail/webcastdetails.aspx?seriesid=111&webcastid=5011

TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of SQL Server 2008: Performance Troubleshooting (Level 200)

An area of concern for Contoso is the monitoring and troubleshooting of any performance issues it may encounter on Microsoft SQL Server 2008. In this session, we cover the tools available for IT departments as they troubleshoot performance. We look at Performance Studio, the features available, and how to use them to analyze performance. We also cover how to use the Best Practice Analyzer for SQL Server, and utilizing the results it provides.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/detail/webcastdetails.aspx?seriesid=111&webcastid=4731

TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of SQL Server 2008: Streamlining Data Integration (Level 200)

To load data into the Contoso enterprise data warehouse, Contoso uses Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services. In this webcast, we review the new features in Integration Services that help Contoso streamline the development and execution of processes to extract, transform, and load data into the data warehouse: ADO.NET connectivity, persistent lookups, pipeline improvements, and data profiling. We also examine alternatives for managing changing data in the data warehouse using the Change Data Capture function and MERGE command. Demonstrations on using an ADO.NET data source, working with lookup caches, identifying dirty data with data profiling, and using Change Data Capture and MERGE for slowly changing dimensions are included in this webcast.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/detail/webcastdetails.aspx?seriesid=111&webcastid=4875

New KB's

SQL 2005

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Microsoft SQL Server Service pack 3 (SP3)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ae7387c3-348c-4faa-8ae5-949fdfbe59c4&displaylang=en

SQL 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959132/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: MDX: Calculated member without parent is treated as level 1 in DESCENDANTS function

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960532/EN-US

SQL 2008

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: In a localized Microsoft Windows operating system, the English version of the context-sensitive Help for SQL Server 2008 Report Builder is displayed instead of the localized context-sensitive Help

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960124/EN-US

SQL Svr Developer 2008 EN: Error message when you install the 64-bit version of SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence Development Studio: "Upgrade Failed due to the following Error. The error code is: -2147467259.Message:Unspecified error"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960127/EN-US

SQL Svr Express Edition 2008 AL: Error message when you upgrade from MSDE 2000 to SQL Server 2008 Express: "A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible."

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960126/EN-US

December 2008 - Technical Rollup Mail - SQL Server

conuktrm — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:00:57 GMT

NEWS

Technical RollUp

http://blogs.technet.com/trm/default.aspx

DOCUMENTS

Running SQL Server 2008 in a Hyper-V Environment - Best Practices and Performance Recommendations

http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/9/4/d948f981-926e-40fa-a026-5bfcf076d9b9/SQL2008inHyperV2008.docx

SQL Server Replication: Providing High Availability using Database Mirroring

http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/9/4/d948f981-926e-40fa-a026-5bfcf076d9b9/ReplicationAndDBM.docx

Database Snapshot Performance Considerations under I/O-Intensive Workloads

http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/9/4/d948f981-926e-40fa-a026-5bfcf076d9b9/DBSnapshotPerf.docx

Best Practices for Semantic Data Modeling for Performance and Scalability

http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/9/4/d948f981-926e-40fa-a026-5bfcf076d9b9/BPSemanticDBModeling.docx

DOWNLOADS

SQL Server 2008 RDL Spec

SQL Server 2008 RDL Spec

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d2a20c7af-52e8-4882-bd24-9479b3c7517d%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft® Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR

Microsoft® Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR implements support for SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dbb3ad767-5f69-4db9-b1c9-8f55759846ed%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Technical Reference Guide

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d66d3e6f5-6902-4fdd-af75-9975aea5bea7%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server MP for OpsMgr 2007

The Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 provides discovery and monitoring of SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=4&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d8c0f970e-c653-4c15-9e51-6a6cadfca363%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2008 Compliance Guide

This paper provides an overview of how to approach compliance for the management of the SQL Server database. It describes the compliance-related features of SQL Server 2008 and how to apply them to IT controls. This paper includes tips and scripts to help jump-start compliance solution development.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d6e1021dd-65b9-41c2-8385-438028f5acc2%26displaylang%3den

Azure Services Training Kit

Azure Services Training Kit

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d413e88f8-5966-4a83-b309-53b7b77edf78%26displaylang%3den

EMEA Case Study Resources

Case Study Resources

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=7&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d7cbc1d01-bdfb-46af-acc1-8ce17ff50bcb%26displaylang%3den

RML Utilities for SQL Server (x64)

Tools to help database administrators manage the performance of Microsoft SQL Server.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=8&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3db60cdfa3-732e-4347-9c06-2d1f1f84c342%26displaylang%3den

RML Utilities for SQL Server (x86)

Tools to help database administrators manage the performance of Microsoft SQL Server.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=9&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d7edfa95a-a32f-440f-a3a8-5160c8dbe926%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server Data Services

SQL Server Data Services

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=10&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d2539d851-1e68-42fd-bee0-d36806a732fb%26displaylang%3den

External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint

This solution accelerator is a collection of software and guidance that you can use to easily deploy a SharePoint-based environment for collaboration with people outside your firewall. The accelerator allows users to create collaboration environments that use the familiar SharePoint interface. Because the solution is easy to use, end users are more likely to use it rather than revert to e mail.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=11&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dd9af2c25-989c-45c4-8008-1f15722190ed%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2008 Predictive Analysis Datasheet

Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2008 empowers informed decisions with predictive analysis through intuitive data mining; seamlessly integrated within the Microsoft Business Intelligence platform and extensible into business applications.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=12&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dbfcc3ded-9a3d-4a32-85e2-e71fd90ee645%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Datasheet

Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2008 helps enable organizations to build comprehensive, enterprise-scale analytic solutions that deliver actionable insights through familiar tools.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=13&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d1ad953e6-2ca9-4d8b-95ff-d5242c4c627a%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Performance Guide

This white paper describes how application developers can apply query and processing performance-tuning techniques to their SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services OLAP solutions.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=14&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d3be0488d-e7aa-4078-a050-ae39912d2e43%26displaylang%3den

Visual Studio 2005 Update for SQL Server 2008 Support

This update enables developers to use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 with Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=15&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3de1109aef-1aa2-408d-aa0f-9df094f993bf%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2008 Security DataSheet

SQL Server 2008 Security DataSheet

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=16&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d65c2a014-5cbc-424e-ad5d-8d1da0bf6f58%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2008 Report Builder 2.0

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Report Builder 2.0 provides an intuitive report authoring environment for business and power users. It supports the full capabilities of SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services. The download provides a stand-alone installer for Report Builder 2.0

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=17&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d9f783224-9871-4eea-b1d5-f3140a253db6%26displaylang%3den

Virtualizing SQL Server 2008 with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

Virtualizing SQL Server 2008 with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=18&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d5b72bd51-df66-43a0-aca6-d23bf0d7f44d%26displaylang%3den

Creating Custom Reports by Using Configuration Manager 2007 SQL Views

This documentation provides the information to help you create custom reports, determine which Configuration Manager 2007 SQL views contain the information you need for your reports, and identify the path between the necessary SQL views and determine what columns can be used to join them.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=19&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d87bbe64e-5439-4fc8-becc-deb372a40f4a%26displaylang%3den

Intergraph

Intergraph® GeoMedia® to Support Microsoft SQL Server 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=20&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dac45a8bf-a152-431b-bb79-04afa66ddfe0%26displaylang%3den

EVENTS/WEBCASTS

A walk down memory lane - SQLBits Video

An in-depth look at SQL Server and Windows memory configuration and usage covering x86, x64, /PAE, /3GB, AWE, MemToLeave, Virtual Address Space, DBCC MemoryStatus, and Workspace/Query Memory.

http://coeo.com/sql-server-events/sql-server-conferences.html

TechNet Webcast: SQL Server 2008 for SAP Customers

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/detail/webcastdetails.aspx?seriesid=111&webcastid=1032353311

TechNet Webcast: Protect SQL Server 2008 with Data Protection Manager 2007 (Level 300)

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/detail/webcastdetails.aspx?seriesid=111&webcastid=5011

TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of SQL Server 2008: Performance Troubleshooting (Level 200)

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/detail/webcastdetails.aspx?seriesid=111&webcastid=4731

TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of SQL Server 2008: Streamlining Data Integration (Level 200)

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/detail/webcastdetails.aspx?seriesid=111&webcastid=4875

NEW KB's

SQL 2008

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: You may receive incorrect results when you run a query that references three or more tables in the FROM clause in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958611/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: How to upgrade SQL Server 2008 Setup by running a newer version of the SQL Server 2008 Setup support files

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955392/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Some Dundas Chart features are missing after you convert a SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services report to SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956027/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you use a SQL Server 2008 Integration Services package to query a table in an Oracle database: "SSIS Error Code DTS_E_INDUCEDTRANSFORMFAILUREONERROR"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959794/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you rebuild indexes for a table that contains sparse columns in SQL Server 2008: "Cannot alter table '<TableName>' because the table either contains sparse columns or a column set column which are incompatible with compression"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958792/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Some screens in the Cumulative Update 1 for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 setup contain incorrect information

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959792/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: When an AMO object is used in the SQL Server 2008 CLR stored procedure to create or update Analysis Services objects, the stored procedure may fail

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959780/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: When you try to install a failover instance on a computer that is running a 64-bit version of Windows, the x86 option is available on the options landing page in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959889/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A deadlock occurs when you implement DDL statements against the partitions that are defined in a partitioned table in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959783/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Error message when an application uses ODBC to bind a TVP and a subtype as DAE in SQL Server 2008: "HY010, [Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 10.0]Function sequence error"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959796/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A query that uses a DMV to query the sys.dm_os_performance_counters object seems to stop responding in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959798/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The installation is not successful when you try to install BIDS in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959800/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: When you try to update SQL Server 2008 in attended mode, the update for SQL Support is not successful

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959801/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Dr. Watson error information is not posted in the Problem Reports and Solutions window if SQL Server 2008 Setup fails

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959788/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: SQL Server Setup may be unsuccessful when you try to install SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958918/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A DMX prediction query returns incorrect results when you query a logistic regression model in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959769/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Visual Studio 2008 stops responding when you leave a SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services-based database project idle for some time

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959776/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A database contains jumbled column data after you use the SSIS Fuzzy Grouping transformation in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959770/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The results of a writeback operation to a measure group are not reflected in a linked measure group in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959768/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you try to export a SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services report by using Report Manager: "Internet Explorer cannot download <ReportName>.xls from <URL>"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958479/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The output from the DBCC MEMORYSTATUS command indicates that the Schema Manager cache uses more buffer space than expected in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958599/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you synchronize data for a transactional publication in SQL Server 2008: "Procedure or function 'sp_MSins_dbo<TableName>_msrepl_ccs' expects parameter '@c7', which was not supplied"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959784/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you try to add articles to a publication that uses an Oracle Database 11g database as the publisher in SQL Server 2008: "Constraint column '<ColumnName>' not found in table '<TableName>'"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959785/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: When Excel 2007 tries to connect to an OLAP cube on a server that is running SQL Server 2005, the connection fails

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959771/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Calculated members in a SQL Server 2008 database are not evaluated, and the advanced filters return unexpected results when you run the Filter function in an Excel 2007 PivotTable report

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959774/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: When you try to use a subselect query that has calculated members in Excel 2007, the query returns an unexpected error

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959773/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A query returns incorrect results if a passthrough predicate is used with a filter in the query plan

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958214/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The script that the Generate Scripts wizard generates does not include some source database tables

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958793/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: In SQL Server 2008, SQL Server Management Studio generates a CREATE TABLE script instead of creating a DROP TABLE script

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958790/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: You cannot use the SQL Server 2008 version of SMO to manage certificates in SQL Server 2005 and in SQL Server 2000

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958757/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: SQL Server Management Studio uses the simple recovery model to create a new database when you click "New Database" in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958759/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: FIX: The database name or the database ID number does not appear in the "Most Expensive Queries" chart in the Activity Monitor when you run a query on a server running SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958941/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: FIX: Activity Monitor shows the high wait times when the FSAGENT wait type is enabled on a server that is running SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958942/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: FIX: The Database column or the Task State column may be blank for some processes in the Process chart of Activity Monitor on a server that is running SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958943/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: FIX: Database Engine Tuning Advisor in SQL Server 2008 does not recommend any index to analyze a query

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959790/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: FIX: The License Terms screen of the Setup program for Cumulative Update 1 for SQL Server 2008 incorrectly states "To install Service Pack"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959795/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: FIX: You cannot access Books Online help from the Activity Monitor feature in SQL Server 2008 by pressing the F1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959782/EN-US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959376/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: FIX: Memory consumption in MEMORYCLERK_SOSNODE and in USERSTORE_SCHEMAMANAGER may cause a performance slowdown of a SQL Server 2008 database

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959767/EN-US

SQL Svr Express Edition 2008 AL: FIX: Full-text search functionality does not work in SQL Server 2008 Express Edition

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958758/EN-US

November 2008 - Technical Rollup Mail - SQL

Justin Zarb — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:50:00 GMT

News

Technical RollUp

http://blogs.technet.com/trm/default.aspx

Downloads

SQL Server Reporting Services Add-in for SharePoint Technologies

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d1e53f882-0c16-4847-b 331-132274ae8c84%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2008 Privacy Statement

Read the Privacy Statement document for Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3de7f89bf5-d80c-46b5-a12f-fade6d41330d%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack, October 2008

Download the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack, a collection of stand-alone install packages that provide additional value for SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d228de03f-3b5a-428a-923f-58a033d316e1%26displaylang%3den

Web Platform Installer Beta

The Microsoft Web Platform Installer (beta) is a free tool that makes it simple to download and install the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform, including the IIS7, SQL Server Express, .NET Framework and Visual Web Developer.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=4&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d3a41fac1-ed06-4944-a24d-76c8da31cf7d%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2008 Report Builder 2.0

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d9f783224-9871-4eea-b1d5-f3140a253db6%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP Cumulative Update - October 2008

Download the SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP Cumulative Update - October 2008. This update contains bug fixes reported by the community.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d61bf87e0-d031-466b-b09a-6597c21a2e2a%26displaylang%3den

Direct Marketing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Case Study

One of this agency’s clients has 14 subsidiary organizations whose independently developed collateral needed greater brand creative man¬agement and consistency. Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and technologies from Adobe and Equilibrium, the agency developed a template-based collateral development and brand management solution.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=7&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d34f2e52d-6cde-40ad-b253-fee924662df7%26displaylang%3den

System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 Documentation

This download contains documentation for System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=8&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dd826b836-59e5-4628-939e-2b852ed79859%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2005 Privacy Statement

Read the Privacy Statement document for Microsoft SQL Server 2005.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=9&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d0623907e-6939-4251-a6e7-90142590ed43%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server Protocol Documentation

The Microsoft SQL Server protocol documentation provides technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols that are implemented and used in Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=10&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d91ef5106-944a-41e1-b3a0-5bd3f2356f32%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft® Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR September CTP

Microsoft® Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR implements support for SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=11&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dbb3ad767-5f69-4db9-b1c9-8f55759846ed%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Connectors for Oracle and Teradata

Download the SSIS Connectors for Oracle and Teradata that provide additional value for SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=12&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dd9cb21fe-32e9-4d34-a381-6f9231d84f1e%26displaylang%3den

Western Extrusions CS

According to Mojica, the aging Windows Server 2003 platform had worn thin. The new operating system would need to work smoothly with Western’s SQL Server® 2000 and Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 solutions.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=13&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dc4abd726-71cd-4f9b-b10a-f2189c79cd46%26displaylang%3den

SLM Datasheet

This is Microsoft Services SQL: Service Level Management (SLM) datasheet.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=14&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3de37c709d-48c3-4ba0-afa2-aab2b93cda2b%26displaylang%3den

DCM for SQL Datasheet

This is Microsoft Services for SQL: Desired Configuration Monitoring (DCM) datasheet.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=15&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dfcda8b1c-6634-47a5-8601-e21773fe2a7b%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2005: for Administrators Datasheet

This four-day WorkshopPLUS course is available exclusively for Microsoft Premier Support customers and contains Level 300+ content.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=16&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d1cfb760c-a3fa-4e50-9fc3-0e7c9819d51f%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Books Online (August 2008)

Download the documentation and tutorials for Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=17&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d765433f7-0983-4d7a-b628-0a98145bcb97%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack, August 2008

Download the 2008 Feature Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2008, a collection of stand-alone install packages that provide additional value for SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=18&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dc6c3e9ef-ba29-4a43-8d69-a2bed18fe73c%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 and MSDE 2000 (KB948111)

Security Update for SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 and MSDE 2000 (KB948111)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=19&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d8316bc5e-8c2d-4710-8acc-b815ccc81cd4%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 and MSDE 2000 (KB948110)

Security Update for SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 and MSDE 2000 (KB948110)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=20&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d4fd1f86a-94a2-43d8-9b0a-774c81426d9e%26displaylang%3den

Documents

Running SQL Server 2008 in a Hyper-V Environment - Best Practices and Performance Recommendations

http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/9/4/d948f981-926e-40fa-a026-5bfcf076d9b9/SQL2008inHyperV2008.docx

SQL Server Replication: Providing High Availability using Database Mirroring

http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/9/4/d948f981-926e-40fa-a026-5bfcf076d9b9/ReplicationAndDBM.docx

Running SQL Server 2008 on Windows Server 2008

The combination of SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 offers enterprise IT administrators and professional developers a superlative platform for mission-critical applications together with enhanced end-to-end security, management, and development capabilities.

http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/wp-run-sql-2008-on-windows-server-2008.aspx

SQL Server 2008 Licensing Overview

This document explains key licensing considerations for SQL Server 2008 customers.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/e/6/1e68f92c-f334-4517-b610-e4dee946ef91/2008%20SQL%20Licensing%20Overview%20final.docx

Best Practices for Integration Services Configurations

This article explains what SQL Server Integration Services configurations are used for, why you should use Integration Services configurations, and what options you have for leveraging configurations. It will also make some simple recommendations that are based on my experiences of building Integration Services packages in a real-world environment. An understanding of the terms “package”, “Business Intelligence Development Studio”, and “dtexec.exe” in the context of Integration Services is assumed.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc671628.aspx

FILESTREAM Storage in SQL Server 2008

In today’s society, data is generated at incredible rates and often needs to be stored and accessed in a controlled and efficient way. There are various technologies to do this and the choice of technology often depends on the nature of the data being stored – structured, semistructured, or unstructured

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc949109.aspx

Events/Webcasts

Creating an Analysis Services Project (SQL Server Video)

This video demonstrates how to create an Analysis Services project, define a data source, and define a data source view. You will also learn how to change the value of the FriendlyName property for objects in the data source view to increase the user-friendliness of their names.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc952925.aspx

Defining and Deploying a Cube (SQL Server Video)

This video demonstrates how to define and deploy an OLAP cube using Analysis Services.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc952924.aspx

Modifying Measures, Attributes and Hierarchies (SQL Server Video)

This video demonstrates how to modify the measures, attributes and hierarchies in a cube.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc952926.aspx

Creating a Basic Package (SQL Server Video)

This video demonstrates how to create a basic package by using the SSIS Designer in Business Intelligence Development Studio.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc952921.aspx

Exporting SQL Server Data to Excel (SQL Server Video)

This video demonstrates how to use the SQL Server Import and Export Wizard to create a package that exports data from a SQL Server database to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc952922.aspx

September 2008 - Technical Rollup Mail - SQL

Justin Zarb — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:00:00 GMT

News

Technical RollUp

http://blogs.technet.com/trm/default.aspx

Downloads

SQL – The Next Great Gaming Platform

Presentation from GameFest 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d8b2a9674-13c4-42e3-8270-76813ab2a507%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2008 Report Builder 2.0 RC1

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dcc9acbbd-570c-4712-b74d-85f537a5a75f%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express with Tools

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express with Tools is a free, easy-to use version of SQL Server Express that includes more features and makes it easier than ever to start developing powerful data-driven applications for the web or local desktop.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d7522a683-4cb2-454e-b908-e805e9bd4e28%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express with Advanced Services

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=4&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3db5d1b8c3-fda5-4508-b0d0-1311d670e336%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft® Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR August CTP

Microsoft® Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR implements support for SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dbb3ad767-5f69-4db9-b1c9-8f55759846ed%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2008 Release Notes

This Release Notes document contains information for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 that supplements the SQL Server 2008 Readme and Books Online documentation.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3ddaf00920-7214-418a-a4b0-727f4ce08f81%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server Management Pack for MOM 2005

The SQL Server Management Pack monitors SQL Server services and features and their availability.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=7&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d79f151c7-4d98-4c2b-bf72-ec2b4ae69191%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) SDK (Beta)

This is a beta version of the Software Development Kit for SSDS including tools and client side components useful to developers building applications against SSDS.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=8&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d0b1fa5c6-ec9d-440b-939e-481dd05f2627%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server Protocol Documentation

The Microsoft SQL Server protocol documentation provides technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols that are implemented and used in Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=9&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d91ef5106-944a-41e1-b3a0-5bd3f2356f32%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer

This download is the August 2008 release of SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=10&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dda0531e4-e94c-4991-82fa-f0e3fbd05e63%26displaylang%3den

Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server SP1

This Service Pack contains bug fixes and new features that address feedback from customers and provide support for recent operating system and database releases. This service pack applies to Team Foundation Server 2008, Team Foundation 2008 Proxy, and Team Foundation Server 2008 Build.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=11&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d9e40a5b6-da41-43a2-a06d-3cee196bfe3d%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 Books Online and Samples

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 is an embedded database that allows developers to build robust applications for Windows desktops and mobile devices. The download contains the Books Online and samples for SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=12&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d07829770-73a7-41e4-880d-e74b1a353623%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 for Windows Mobile

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 for devices Windows Installer (MSI) file contains the CAB files and the DLLs for installing SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 on the Windows mobile devices.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=13&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dfce9abbf-f807-45d6-a457-ab5615001c8f%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 and Synchronization Services for ADO.NET v1.0 SP1 for Windows Desktop

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 is an embedded database that allows developers to build robust applications for Windows desktops and mobile devices. The download contains the files for installing SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 and Synchronization Services for ADO.NET version 1.0 SP1 on Windows desktop.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=14&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3ddc614aee-7e1c-4881-9c32-3a6ce53384d9%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 Server Tools

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 Server Tools Windows Installer (MSI) file installs replication components on the computer running the Internet Information Services (IIS) for synchronizing data with SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=15&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dfa751db3-7685-471b-ac31-f1b150422462%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Datasheet

Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2008 helps enable organizations to build comprehensive, enterprise-scale analytic solutions that deliver actionable insights through familiar tools.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=16&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d1ad953e6-2ca9-4d8b-95ff-d5242c4c627a%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2008 Predictive Analysis Datasheet

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=17&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dbfcc3ded-9a3d-4a32-85e2-e71fd90ee645%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor

Download the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor. Upgrade Advisor analyzes instances of SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 to help you prepare for upgrades to SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=18&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3df5a6c5e9-4cd9-4e42-a21c-7291e7f0f852%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007

Download SQL Server 2008 Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007. This package includes two add-ins for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 (Table Analysis Tools and Data Mining Client) and one add-in for Microsoft Office Visio 2007 (Data Mining Templates).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=19&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d896a493a-2502-4795-94ae-e00632ba6de7%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack, August 2008

Download the 2008 Feature Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2008, a collection of stand-alone install packages that provide additional value for SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=20&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dc6c3e9ef-ba29-4a43-8d69-a2bed18fe73c%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server Reporting Services Add-in for SharePoint Technologies

The Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies is a Web download that provides features for running a report server within a larger deployment of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=21&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d200fd7b5-db7c-4b8c-a7dc-5efee6e19005%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2008 Privacy Statement

Read the Privacy Statement document for Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=22&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3de7f89bf5-d80c-46b5-a12f-fade6d41330d%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server Data Services

SQL Server Data Services

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=23&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d2539d851-1e68-42fd-bee0-d36806a732fb%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Books Online

Download the documentation and tutorials for Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=24&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d765433f7-0983-4d7a-b628-0a98145bcb97%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Evaluation: Trial Experience for IT Professionals

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=25&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d265f08bc-1874-4c81-83d8-0d48dbce6297%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Evaluation: Trial Experience for Developers

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=26&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d6b10c7c1-4f97-42c4-9362-58d4d088cd38%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express

SQL Server 2008 Express is a free edition of SQL Server that is ideal for learning and building desktop and small server applications, and for redistribution by ISVs.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=27&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d58ce885d-508b-45c8-9fd3-118edd8e6fff%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2008 Pricing and Licensing

SQL Server 2008 Pricing and Licensing

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=28&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d7b133660-36b9-4a02-b0d8-dd7f7f19aa4f%26displaylang%3den

Install_cc_triggers

Install_cc_triggers

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=29&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d0f30eb82-0ca2-40cd-b6dc-1ce637dd7838%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 and MSDE 2000 (KB948110)

Security Update for SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 and MSDE 2000 (KB948110)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=30&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d4fd1f86a-94a2-43d8-9b0a-774c81426d9e%26displaylang%3den

Documents

SQL Server 2008 Licensing Overview

This document explains key licensing considerations for SQL Server 2008 customers.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/e/6/1e68f92c-f334-4517-b610-e4dee946ef91/2008%

XML Best Practices for Microsoft SQL Server 2005

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ms345115.aspx

SQL Server 2005 Full-Text Queries on Large Catalogs: Lessons Learned

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/bestpractice/ftslesld.mspx

Events/Webcasts

TechNet Webcast: SQL Server 2008 (Part 3 of 3): Integrate Growing Data Volumes (Level 300)

Attend this session to learn how to integrate growing volumes of data with the new enhancements in Microsoft SQL Server 2008. We cover new technologies, like Change Data Capture and MERGE SQL statement, in addition to scalability improvements in SQL Server Integration Services, like lookup enhancements and data profiling.

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032365552&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

TechNet Webcast: Mastering Time Series Prediction with SQL Server 2008 Data Mining (Level 300)

Time series data is one of the most useful sources for data mining. Whether it be estimating future gasoline prices or understanding the relationship between the weather and sales, there is a role for time series analysis. In the new release of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Data Mining, Microsoft has introduced some important enhancements to our support in this area, making powerful analysis both more effective and easier to use. In this webcast, we not only introduce these new features, but we also cover many of the business scenarios for which time series prediction is invaluable.

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032359362&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

MSDN Webcast: Introducing SQL Server Compact 3.5 (Level 200)

With Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, developers have an easy-to-deploy solution for local data. Ranging from caching reference data to full offline scenarios, developers can use a single engine for their Windows Mobile-powered devices, or their full desktop clients–benefiting from the power of SQL Server in a compact footprint. Using Visual Studio 2008, we show how SQL Server Compact can be transparently deployed with unique features including updatable result sets and a custom document format, and how to manage the creation and maintenance of your local data. This session is packed with demonstrations that can get you started today.

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032364883&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

August 2008 - Technical Rollup Mail - SQL

Justin Zarb — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:00:00 GMT

News

Technical RollUp

http://blogs.technet.com/trm/default.aspx

SQL Server 2008 RC0 Available for Everyone

http://blogs.technet.com/dataplatforminsider/archive/2008/06/10/sql-server-2008-rc0-available-for-everyone.aspx

Downloads

SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP

Download the SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP, a PHP 5 extension that allows for the reading and writing of SQL Server data from within PHP scripts.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d61bf87e0-d031-466b-b09a-6597c21a2e2a%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft® Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR July CTP

Microsoft® Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR implements support for SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dbb3ad767-5f69-4db9-b1c9-8f55759846ed%26displaylang%3den

SSMA 2008 for Sybase V4.0

Automates database migration from Sybase ASE to SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d4fc68b67-149f-4237-8869-e70b68947f4f%26displaylang%3den

SSMA 2008 for Sybase PowerBuilder Applications v1.0

SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) 2008 for Sybase PowerBuilder Applications is a tool that cuts the effort, cost, and risk of migrating PowerBuilder Applications designed for Sybase to SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=4&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dad09f718-7d6f-499b-8a6a-0ea98e0c0295%26displaylang%3den

SSMA 2008 for Oracle V4.0

SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) 2008 for Oracle is a complete suite of tools that dramatically cuts the effort, cost, and risk of migrating from Oracle to SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d3e8722ae-77f3-4288-906d-f421e24d322f%26displaylang%3den

SSMA 2005 for Sybase V4.0

Automates database migration from Sybase ASE to SQL Server 2005.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d842b092d-c123-4c76-8051-30b16e45d554%26displaylang%3den

SSMA 2005 for Oracle V4.0

SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) 2005 for Oracle is a complete suite of tools that dramatically cuts the effort, cost, and risk of migrating from Oracle to SQL Server 2005.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=7&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d6d9bc6a7-75da-493e-bee5-50f4a4352b91%26displaylang%3den

SSMA 2005 for Access V4.0

Automates database migration from Access to SQL Server 2005.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=8&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d4ecd1e67-c64e-49e6-821e-c4d83d9d5fed%26displaylang%3den

SSMA 2008 for Access V4.0

Automates database migration from Access to SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=9&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d133b59c2-c89c-4641-bebb-6d04476ec1ba%26displaylang%3den

System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Feature Pack (x86)

This Update bundles the following features: Windows Server 2008 support, SQL Server 2008 support, enhanced support for sharing tape libraries and better tape utilization.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=10&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3de9e1fe35-b175-40a8-8378-2f306ccc9e28%26displaylang%3den

System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Feature Pack (x64)

This Update bundles the following features: Windows Server 2008 support, SQL Server 2008 support, enhanced support for sharing tape libraries and better tape utilization.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=11&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dad5cd1a2-9b87-4a2c-90a2-9dbaf1024310%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 Benchmark Performance White Paper: 1,000 Concurrent Users with Microsoft SQL Server 2005

This white paper documents performance benchmark testing for running Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 with 1,000 constant concurrent users, all engaged in heavy transaction processing or analysis activity across various functional areas of the solution.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=12&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3de0e92459-f611-4957-85be-823f0b88cff5%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2008 Privacy Statement

Read the Privacy Statement document for Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=13&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3de7f89bf5-d80c-46b5-a12f-fade6d41330d%26displaylang%3den

Source Code Analyzer for SQL Injection

Microsoft Source Code Analyzer for SQL Injection is a static code analysis tool for finding SQL Injection vulnerabilities in ASP code. Customers can run the tool on their ASP source code to help identify code paths that are vulnerable to SQL Injection attacks.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=14&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d58a7c46e-a599-4fcb-9ab4-a4334146b6ba%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB948110)

A security issue has been identified in the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (WMSDE) that could allow an attacker to compromise your Microsoft Windows-based system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=15&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d1c0ae18b-1f17-44b3-a337-b36e7de437a7%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (KB948109)

A security issue has been identified in the SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 that could allow an attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=16&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d4c9851cc-2c4c-4190-872c-84993a7623b7%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 and MSDE 2000 (KB948111)

Security Update for SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 and MSDE 2000 (KB948111)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=17&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d8316bc5e-8c2d-4710-8acc-b815ccc81cd4%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 and MSDE 2000 (KB948110)

Security Update for SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 and MSDE 2000 (KB948110)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=18&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d4fd1f86a-94a2-43d8-9b0a-774c81426d9e%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 7.0 and MSDE 1.0 Service Pack 4 (KB948113)

A security issue has been identified in the SQL Server 7.0 and MSDE 1.0 Service Pack 4

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=19&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dc95b2cb3-51a4-44e4-b9f4-9416e9ce16a0%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (KB948108)

A security issue has been identified in the SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 that could allow an attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=20&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3da60bb7e7-ef4e-4cbd-b63a-0ad7bd1402b3%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server Protocol Documentation

The Microsoft SQL Server protocol documentation provides technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols that are implemented and used in Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=21&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d91ef5106-944a-41e1-b3a0-5bd3f2356f32%26displaylang%3den

MSDN Library for VS SP1 (April 2007 Edition)

The MSDN® Library is an essential resource of information for developers using Microsoft® tools, products, and technologies.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=22&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3db8704100-0127-4d88-9b5d-896b9b388313%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server JDBC Driver 2.0 CTP (July 2008)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=23&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3df914793a-6fb4-475f-9537-b8fcb776befd%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2008 RC0 Release Notes

This Release Notes document contains information for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Release Candidate 0 (RC0) that supplements the SQL Server 2008 RC0 Readme and Books Online documentation. This document describes behaviors that apply only to this release or that are not documented in this release of Books Onl

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=24&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3ddaf00920-7214-418a-a4b0-727f4ce08f81%26displaylang%3den

Documents

White Paper: Microsoft Data Platform Development

http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/wp-sql-2008-data-development.aspx

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and the Microsoft data platform provide developers with a comprehensive programming framework in which to create data-centric solutions that target mobile devices, desktops, Web servers, and enterprise servers. This data programming environment improves developer productivity by integrating data access and management into the business logic of an application. It provides a comprehensive platform for data access and management from disparate data sources, and a scalable solution for data storage and applications.

Database Encryption in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc278098(SQL.100).aspx

With the introduction of transparent data encryption (TDE) in SQL Server 2008, users now have the choice between cell-level encryption as in SQL Server 2005, full database-level encryption by using TDE, or the file-level encryption options provided by Windows. TDE is the optimal choice for bulk encryption to meet regulatory compliance or corporate data security standards. TDE works at the file level, which is similar to two Windows® features: the Encrypting File System (EFS) and BitLocker™ Drive Encryption, the new volume-level encryption introduced in Windows Vista®, both of which also encrypt data on the hard drive. TDE does not replace cell-level encryption, EFS, or BitLocker. This white paper compares TDE with these other encryption methods for application developers and database administrators. While this is not a technical, in-depth review of TDE, technical implementations are explored and a familiarity with concepts such as virtual log files and the buffer pool are assumed. The user is assumed to be familiar with cell-level encryption and cryptography in general. Implementing database encryption is covered, but not the rationale for encrypting a database.

Events/Webcasts

TechNet Webcast: Security Enhancements in SQL Server 2008 (Level 300)

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032364703&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 introduced many security enhancements, from data encryption to advanced context impersonation. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 further helps administrators protect their database with the introduction of new features such as Transparent Database Encryption, Extensible Key Management, and Auditing. In this session, we describe the new security enhancements in SQL Server 2008 and discuss how to best take advantage of them.

TechNet Webcast: SQL Server 2008 (Part 1 of 3): High-Performance Data Warehousing (Level 300)

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032365533&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Attend this session to learn how to incorporate the new features in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 to provide a high-performance data warehouse that can scale to larger number of users and growing volumes of data. In this session, we cover new technologies like partitioned table parallelism, star join query enhancements, and Grouping Sets.

TechNet Webcast: SQL Server 2008 Performance and Scalability Technologies (Level 300)

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032354211&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 supports very large databases, enterprise-scale reporting systems, and data warehouses. It provides growing database systems with tools and features to optimize performance, scale up individual servers, and scale out very large databases. SQL Server 2008 is designed to take advantage of the latest hardware technologies to support server consolidation. Throughout this presentation, we look into SQL Server 2008 performance and scalability technologies and show how you can use these technologies to provide optimal performance and responsiveness for your large data solutions.

New KB's

You obtain no result when you use an aggregate in a filter in Report Builder of SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=954784

FIX: SQL Server 2005 Express Edition cannot pass the Windows logo certification when you install an ISV application on a Windows Vista-based computer or on a Windows Server 2008-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=953970

FIX: When you update more than one row in a table that is joined to another table in SQL Server 2005, some rows are not added

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=953627

FIX: CPU utilization may be high when you configure more than one transactional replication on a computer that has multiple processors in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=953811

FIX: When you use SQL Native Client to retrieve data from a column of the sql_variant data type in SQL Server 2005, an incorrect data type is returned

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=953946

FIX: The size of a database keeps increasing when you perform many DELETE operations and many INSERT operations on the database in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=953991

FIX: When you define an alert activity on a fractional performance counter of an instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 in System Monitor, the alert does not work

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=953850

FIX: Error message after you run the DBCC DBREINDEX Transact-SQL statement on a table that does not have a unique clustered index on a SQL Server 2005-based computer: "Msg 2511"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=954734