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Reintroducing Usage-Based Optimization in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services

Author : Denny Lee Contributors / Reviewers : Richard Tkachuk, Akshai Mirchandani, Robert Zare, Thomas Kejser, Gang Xiao, Cristian Petculescu Introduction From the early days of Microsoft® SQL Server® Analysis Services, one of the query performance optimization ... More
Top 10 Lists: Review our summary list of best practices, recommendations, and common issues.

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    Ultimate guide to upgrading to SQL Server 2008

      Posted by: SQL Server Customer Advisory Team
    • 12-07-2008
    For the ultimate guide to upgrading to SQL Server 2008, please refer to the SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Technical Reference Guide . A successful upgrade to SQL Server 2008 should be smooth and trouble-free. To achieve that smooth transition, you must devote...
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    SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Performance Guide now available

      Posted by: SQL Server Customer Advisory Team
    • 11-14-2008
    Thomas Kejser and I made some significant updates to the SQL Server Analysis Services Performance Guide for SQL Server 2008 - it's available here . Our hope is to keep it alive and make updates as necessary. So if there is something you'd like...
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    Best Practices for Integrated Full Text Search (iFTS) in SQL 2008

      Posted by: SQL Server Customer Advisory Team
    • 11-05-2008
    This blog is a result of lessons learned while working with the new Integrated Full Text Search in SQL Server 2008. It is not intended to be an in-depth tutorial on how to implement it. Instead, it will concentrate on best practices. The basics of how...
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    12,000 Concurrent Siebel CRM 8.0 Users On SQL Server 2008

      Posted by: SQL Server Customer Advisory Team
    • 10-29-2008
    Recently, Wanda He from SQLCAT ISV team worked with Oracle Siebel group completed a new 12,000 concurrent users Siebel CRM 8.0 benchmark on SQL Server 2008 ( http://www.microsoft.com/isv/oracle/ ). The benchmark demonstrated that the combination of Microsoft...
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    Reporting Services Scale-Out Deployment Best Practices

      Posted by: SQL Server Customer Advisory Team
    • 10-22-2008
    Check out the the third of five technical note as part of the Building and Deploying Large Scale SQL Server Reporting Services Environments Technical Note Series: Reporting Services Scale-Out Deployment Best Practices This technical note reviews the SSRS...
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    Reintroducing sqlcat.com

      Posted by: SQL Server Customer Advisory Team
    • 10-16-2008
    Check out the new look and feel of the sqlcat.com ! Now you have easy access and views of our Top 10 Lists, Technical Notes, Whitepapers, and Toolbox. As well, now our blogs our mirrored to sqlcat.com for easy access to all SQLCAT tips, best practices...
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