Within the IT organisations it has been a huge expansion of increased challenges with regard to number of office locations and keep up the data consistent across the Enterprise. Travelling around the globe is a olden day myth and now even by sitting at your office or home you can obtain the required...

I'm not going to shoot any questions to Microsoft about RTM release for SQL Server 2008, as it was made it clear from The Data Platform Insider blog post as: Extract: "Over the coming months, customers and partners can look forward to significant product milestones for SQL Server. Microsoft...

In continuaton to UK User Group conference (2 day) in Microsoft Campus, Thames Valley Park Reading here is my presentation to download that was delivered on 09th April 2008. Appreciate your feedback....( read more )

Bottlenecks aka locking & blocking is a quite common scenario within a RDBMS platform, that too SQL Server is not an exception at all. With an access to shared resources causes bottlenecks and demands on shared resources cause poor response time and must be identified and tuned. Few root causes for...

As January 2008 almost getting finished that means 1 month in 2008 is reduced that brings the date to get RTM for SQL Server 2008. Before that the users (DBAs, Developers & Analysts) must get knowledge in making best use of SQL Server 2008 features within their platform. As we blogged earlier about...

Got this exciting news for the SQL Server users to get acquaintance in the next release which is 2008, Microsoft is offering several training opportunities before getting the RTM version to the public. This time the training opportunity is provided by the way of web-seminar series that covers most of...

Here comes another instalment of SQL Server 2008 for the CTP fans. The SQL Server 2008 November CTP has been released to the connect.microsoft.com website and is available for download here . One of the improvements in this build is the ability to persist Lookup reference data and use non-OLEDB sources...