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    Ultimate guide to upgrading to SQL Server 2008

    • Author: SQL Server Customer Advisory Team
    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

    • Author: SQL Server Customer Advisory Team
    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

    • Author: SQL Server Customer Advisory Team
    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

    • Author: SQL Server Customer Advisory Team
    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

    • Author: SQL Server Customer Advisory Team
    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

    • Author: SQL Server Customer Advisory Team
    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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    Table variable vs. temp table and estimated vs. actual query plan

    • Author: SQL Server Customer Advisory Team
    The other day we got a call from a puzzled friend. He has rewritten a stored procedure using table variable instead of temp table, it makes the stored procedure code look more tidy. The puzzling part is the same stored procedure now running a lot slower...
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    Latest Publications: Top 10 SQL Server Integration Services Best Practices and "Money" Technical Notes Published

    • Author: SQL Server Customer Advisory Team
    After the great work from the ETL World Record (for more information, refer to our other blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlcat/archive/2008/09/18/scaling-heavy-network-traffic-with-windows.aspx ), Thomas and I (with the help of many others) have created...
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    Project Gemini - building models and analysing data from Excel

    • Author: SQL Server Customer Advisory Team
    Saw an amazing BI demo this morning at the BI Conference here in Seattle. Donald Farmer showed how over 20M rows of data can be modeled and analyzed in memory. To build a model today, a DBA needs to define dimensions and fact tables, get the relationships...
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    SQL PASS 2008 Just may be the best PASS Conference yet

    • Author: SQL Server Customer Advisory Team
    Coming up this November 18-21 st is the SQL PASS Conference in Seattle, WA (right in Microsoft’s backyard). See http://summit2008.sqlpass.org/ for all the details. This SQL PASS will be very special. The SQL Server engineering team is sending up to 300...
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