On the last day of July, Microsoft made available to testers a new Community Technology Preview (CTP) build of its SQL Server 2008 database, code-named "Katmai." The July CTP build comes one month ...

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 ...

Microsoft is rolling out on February 19 a new Community Technology Preview (CTP) test build of SQL Server 2008. The new build, which Microsoft is labeling as "feature-complete," will be available for ...

Quest Software has launched a free cloud-based service that analyses SQL Server trace files and helps determine the source of performance issues. The company announced the new service, currently in ...

SQL Server Magazine highlighted this among other great free tools and this one caught my eye. The tool used to be called SQLIOStress and has been upgraded to more accurately reflect I/O patterns of ...

SQL Server Recently I wanted to test out SAN access with SQL Server while I was on the road. I wasn’t able to get access to our Data Center which runs with an IBM DS4300 SAN via Fiber Channel using a ...

Unfortunately, not every SQL database is always available when we expect it to be. When you're creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you ...

Quest Software has launched a free cloud-based service that analyses SQL Server trace files and helps determine the source of performance issues. The company announced the new service, currently in ...

Unfortunately, not every SQL database is always available when we expect it to be. When you're creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you ...