Database troubleshooting is not for the faint of heart, especially when it comes to troubleshooting locking and blocking problems. Sometimes the elephant in the room is actually a rhino, a problem ...

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Evan Doty is a senior field solution architect at CDW focused on hybrid cloud and Microsoft Azure. His areas of expertise include LAN and WAN network design and implementation, Windows system ...

It's not 2008 anymore. Joey details the ins and outs of upgrading these aging Microsoft servers, including licensing changes, support options and potential pitfalls. It was a simpler time. A decade ...

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It's official: Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008, the culmination of a series of new tools and server product launches by the company this year, including Visual Studio and Windows Server.

SQL Server 2008, aka “Katmai,” gives SQL Server shops plenty of reasons to get excited. The best SQL Server release to date, it sports more nice new features than you can count, and the improvements ...

SQL Server 2008 R2, which ships this month, allows end users to tap into the powerful business intelligence features of SQL Server via tight integration with popular Microsoft applications like Excel.

SQL Server 2008 has some great new features. One of them is the new auditing capability. Now we can audit at the server, database and table level according to specifications provided by the DBA. We ...

REDMOND, Wash. — Sept. 22, 2008 — New TPC-E performance benchmark results from the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC)1 rank Microsoft SQL Server 2008 No. 1 for price/performance2 on ...

In the complex and frustrating world of virtualization licensing, Microsoft has had its ups and downs and caused its fair share of IT aggravation. Licensing Microsoft products in a physical world has ...