I'm torn whether the next version of SQL Server should be backward compatible or move forward. Here are some of the arguments on both sides.
While PowerShell doesn't duplicate the complete functionality of SSMS, it can duplicate a lot of it.
Get your hands on the upcoming SQL Server development tools. All you need to do is join the program and provide feedback to the mothership.
There are some nifty, better-than-SSMS tools that cost nothing to use. One of them is already in your toolbox and you might not know it.
Automating SQL Server administration tasks is easy with PowerShell, especially with the SQL-related snapins.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 05/10/2011
Use SQL Server Integration Services for a quick way to package up the settings on your database servers.
- By Eric Johnson
- 03/31/2011
Get the right information on your SQL Servers via the Get-Service cmdlet.
- By Joshua Jones
- 03/10/2011
More than 1,600 of Microsoft's most ardent technology supporters gather at the Redmond to attend high-level feedback sessions.
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Get some real useful information from SQL Server Integration Services' Data Profiling Task feature.
- By Eric Johnson
- 02/24/2011
A common problem when restoring databases is making orphans of users. Here's a quick solution.
- By Eric Johnson
- 02/17/2011
Microsoft rolls out configurable reference architectures for SQL Serve at data warehousing conference.
Microsoft published details this month about how it used its own Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) edition of SQL Server 2008 R2 to improve the performance of its company-wide security monitoring system.
The parallel data warehouse edition of Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 R2 solution will soon see the light of day.
Training and exam delivery also expanding off the Redmond campus, according to Microsoft's director of certification.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/09/2010