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Whitepapers: Deep level technical whitepapers on specific SQL Server best practices.

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    Full Text Indexing Terabytes of Files with SQL Server and Cloud Storage

      Posted by: SQL Server Customer Advisory Team
    • 02-02-2010
    Author: Darko Sancanin, Nicholas Dritsas Reviewers and contributors: Lubor Kollar, Stuart Ozer, Michael Thomassy Business Case There are currently over 50 million files (over 10 Terabytes of data) that the customer is migrating into a custom project management...
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    Whitepaper About Star Join Optimizations

      Posted by: SQL Server Customer Advisory Team
    • 12-16-2009
    When we talk to Data Warehouse customers – they often raise questions about the star joins improvements SQL Server 2008. Star join is a set of optimizations that provide some interesting performance gains in data warehouse workload. Instead of digging...
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    Monitoring free space in tempdb transaction log

      Posted by: SQL Server Customer Advisory Team
    • 12-14-2009
    Author: Thomas Kejser Reviewers: Peter Byrne, Sunil Agarwal, Prem Mehra, Peter Scharlock, Lindsey Allen, Mark Souza As part of your database monitoring, you may be keeping track of the free space in the transaction log. One reason to do this, is to detect...
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    Performance Comparison between Data Type Conversion Techniques in SSIS 2008

      Posted by: SQL Server Customer Advisory Team
    • 12-01-2009
    Authors : Sedat Yogurtcuoglu and Thomas Kejser Technical Reviewers : Kevin Cox, Denny Lee, Carl Rabeler, Dana Kaufman, Jesse Fountain, Alexei Khalyako, Dana Kaufman Overview Data type conversion is one of the most common ETL tasks used in Microsoft® SQL...
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    PowerPivot for SharePoint Installation Guides DRAFT

      Posted by: SQL Server Customer Advisory Team
    • 11-20-2009
    The installation of PowerPivot for SharePoint can be a little complex at times - especially the PowerPivot for SharePoint multi-server farm scenario. In order to help with this, the Analysis Services team and the SQLCAT team came together and created...
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    PowerPivot Jump Start!

      Posted by: SQL Server Customer Advisory Team
    • 11-10-2009
    As you may already know, the new name for Project Gemini is PowerPivot and the official names are PowerPivot for Excel and PowerPivot for SharePoint. For information and to sign up for notification on the release dates, check out the official PowerPivot...
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