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SQL Server 2008, TechNet Road-show answers

Following Tuesday’s TechNet event in Manchester, I promised to answer the questions in my blog that I couldn’t answer immediately, so without further ado… Does data collector work with all editions specifically express edition? Data collection is where historical performance information is collected...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-09-2008
SQL Server 2008 Management event in Manchester

Unlike Manchester United, SQL Server 2008 is under new management. What I mean by this is that there are a load of new tools to configure, tune and audit which are essential to keep a modern database in the premiership. While I have done a few events on this theme in the London area, the TechNet...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-29-2008
SQL Server Unleashed – Decks

Quite a few people have asked me where the decks are for the SQL Server unleashed event and I now have an answer: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/bb945096.aspx which I need to put on my blog so I can also remember myself! Also we have filmed this and I am hoping it will be on UGTV shortly as well...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-15-2008
Flying with Small Business and Essential Business Server

Small Business Server (SBS) is like flying a single engined aircraft. There’s a lot of stuff going on but you only have one box to worry about and backup and interoperability are all a lot easier because of this. Flying a twin engined aircraft is far more complicated than a single engined one;...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-15-2008
SQL Server 2008 Unleashed

Although the official UK launch of SQL Server 2008 merged in with the launches of Windows Server 2008, and Visual Studio 2008 back in March, we wanted to celebrate the actual release as well. So please join us in TVP on 10th September for SQL Server Unleashed . The day is aimed at the DBA and will...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-11-2008
SQL Server 2008 Released

I hope you are sitting down, and don’t have a coffee in your hand when you read this, but SQL Server 2008 released at 17:00 GMT today! This is good news for all the people who have asked me about release dates as they can now start to plan and deploy in earnest. It’s good for me as I can now start building...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-06-2008
SQL Server Under New Management

I am now hard at work on the events that will occur around the release SQL Server 2008. This time around I will be presenting: SQL Server Under New Management The ratio of DBA’s to the size of data being managed is increasing all the time as is the burden of compliance regulation ,so what can be...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-29-2008
Upgrading to SQL Server 2008

Back on 19th March I did a presentation on upgrading to SQL Server 2008, as part of the UK Launch event in Birmingham. I have now got the feedback from this session and I thought it would be interesting to share some of it. Microsoft’s privacy policy is far more stringent than any organisation...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-14-2008
TechNet's on the Road Again

Following the resounding success of Jame's and Steve's virtualisation road shows the IT Pro Evangelist's are now taking bookings for the next tour and the details are here . Viral and I are also on tour, which means we can expand our repertoire to wow you with Enterprise Search, Performance Point and...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-16-2007

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