Posts Tagged ‘SQL Server 2005’

Video: The Growing SQL Server World- Surviving the Data Avalanche

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

An expert roundtable discussion hosted by SQL Server Expert Kevin Kline and featuring speakers from Microsoft, EMC, Avanade, HP and Quest Software.
With the release of SQL Server 2005 and its focus on Business Intelligence, SQL Server professionals are faced with unprecedented amounts of data to manage. How are you dealing with the flood of data?

At the PASS Community Summit 2006, experts from Quest Software joined forces with a variety of other SQL Server industry experts for a panel discussion around the implications of managing large volumes of business critical data on SQL Server and recommendations for ensuring availability and performance in your environment.

Some areas explored:
- Storage strategies
- Issues around moving to Storage Area Networks (SAN)
- Performance on SAN
- BI growth and multi-terabyte data stores
- Server scale out and consolidation
- Real world implementation and management challenges

Posted April 10, 2007.

Video: MVPs talk about SQL Server 2008

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

Video chat with Brent Ozar and SQL Server MVPs Kevin Kline, Hilary Cotter and Geoff Hiten to talk about how SQL Server 2008 addresses DBA challenges and pain points. In this webcast, we cover features like Transparent Data Encryption, spatial data, and other new things that really differentiate SQL Server 2008 from 2005.

Posted December 24, 2008.

Free Poster – SQL Server Dynamic Management Views

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

I enjoy working at Quest Software partly because we do a lot to give back to the community. Here’s one example, a free poster describing all of the SQL Server 2005 and 2008 dynamic management views.  Get it here.  It’s the perfect compliment to the free system map poster available from Microsoft here.


Video: Worth Upgrading to SQL Server 2005

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

Why companies should upgrade their databases to SQL Server 2005.

Please forgive posting this old video.  Many of the tips are still worth paying attention to since SQL Server 2005 features and technologies are the foundation of subsequent releases. 

Posted December 19, 2006.

Video: Disk Tuning and Optimization for SQL Server

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

This video focuses on accelerated Disk Optimization and improved productivity with SQL Query Tuning.

Video created Dec. 18, 2006.