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April 28, 2005
1. Perspectives
2. SQL Server 2005 Watch
3. News & Views
4. Events and Resources
5. Featured White Paper
6. Peer to Peer
7. Announcements
8. New & Improved
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1. Perspectives
To GoLive!, Or Not to GoLive!
by Brian Moran, [email protected]
Last week, in "Beta Software Goes Live1" ( http://lists.sqlmag.com/t?ctl=8BEB:7B3DB ) I wrote about Microsoft's new GoLive! license, which lets users deploy the SQL Server 2005 Express Beta in a live production environment. I wondered if Microsoft might be exposing itself to some potential customer wrath and asked what you thought. I received an insightful reply from my colleague Douglas McDowell, director of business intelligence operations for Solid Quality Learning, who writes a BI-focused commentary in SQL Server Magazine UPDATE--Special Edition. Here's what he had to say:
"I think it's pretty stinkin' smart.
So my dear readers, now what do you think? Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of boring old MSDE or take arms against a sea of troubles and trick your boss into rolling out beta software and the sexy new features in SQL Server 2005 Express? To GoLive! or not to Golive!, that is the question.
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2. SQL Server 2005 Watch
Seeing the CLR's Potential
by Matt Nunn, [email protected]
Combating a mixed reception, the SQL Server Common Language Runtime (CLR) is poised to change the way we work with databases. Data is at the core of most modern computer systems and SQL Server 2005 is set to blur the traditional boundaries of the n-tier model. A key driver that's changing the way we think about tiers in computer architecture is the inclusion of the CLR in SQL Server 2005. The SQL Server CLR is one of the most talked about features of SQL Server 2005, and it draws strong opinions from all camps--from those who want to turn it off forever to those who want to use it for everything. People's reactions to the integration of the CLR into SQL Server 2005 are interesting. One member of the SQL Server development team was giving a presentation about CLR integration when a member of the audience stood up and called out, "Is T-SQL dead?" This question prompted us to build an entire session called "No...T-SQL Isn't Dead!" In contrast, I had a conversation with an ASP programmer who had just found out about SQL Server CLR integration and immediately decided that this would not be a great place for him to store all of the .NET assemblies for his Web site. In his May Preparing for SQL Server 2005 column "Seeing the CLR's Potential," Matt Nunn talks about how the SQL Server CLR can provide security, reliability, and performance benefits that extended stored procedures can't. Read this article today at
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3. News & Views
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It's time to cast your vote in SQL Server Magazine's 2nd annual Readers' Choice Awards! By voting for outstanding products, companies, and services, you'll have the opportunity to reward excellence and make your voice heard. The September 2005 issue of SQL Server Magazine will feature your favorite products and your choice of companies that provide the best products and services. Readers must log in to vote, so you must be a registered SQL Server Magazine Website user. Logging in to the site and completing the form is really easy this year. You can even return and complete the survey at your leisure so that you don't have to worry about completing it all in one sitting. After voting closes, we'll draw from participants winners for 2 iPod Shuffles (512MB versions) and 10 SQL Server Magazine t-shirts. Voting ends May 15 so cast your vote today!
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Results of Previous Instant Poll: Specialization
"What area of SQL Server specialization do you think is most important?" Here are the results from the 110 votes:
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4. Events and Resources
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5. Featured White Paper
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6. Peer to Peer
by Brian Moran, [email protected]
The execution time for a particular stored procedure increases 500 percent when we restart SQL Server. Our tests account for the effect of data caching, and the stored procedure's execution plan doesn't change. We don't see drops in performance from our other stored procedures, and the slow procedure's performance returns to normal eventually. How can we tune the slow procedure's performance?
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In "Native Partitioned Tables and Indexes," Itzik Ben-Gan began his coverage of native partitioning in SQL Server 2005 and the related T-SQL code. He's covered the motivation for partitioning, SQL Server 2005's enhancements, and how to create partitioned tables by creating a partition function, partition scheme, and a partitioned table or index. This month, in his T-SQL 2005 column "Partitioned Indexes and Querying Metadata," Itzik Ben-Gan continues his coverage with partitioned index considerations and querying metadata information. Read this article today at
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As a SQL Server MVP, Kevin is exposed to a lot of talented people, many of whom have personal blogs, Web pages, or both. In this week's blog "One of My Favorite SQL Server Personal Sites," Kevin Kline praises Narayana Vyas Kondreddi's Web site, http://lists.sqlmag.com/t?ctl=8BFF:7B3DB . Kondreddi covers diverse and useful topics for the SQL Server professional. Among Kevin's favorites are Kondreddi's articles at http://lists.sqlmag.com/t?ctl=8BF0:7B3DB and the code library at http://lists.sqlmag.com/t?ctl=8BF9:7B3DB . These sections and other resources, such as a plethora of product reviews, promise to keep you busy for some time. The neat thing about these resources is that they'll either save you time on the job or extend your capabilities, and sometimes both! Let Kevin know what you think of Kondreddi's site and tell him about some of your favorite SQL Server sites today at
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Hot Threads: Check out the following hot threads, and see other discussions in our 30 SQL Server forums.
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Development: T-SQL Mass Inserts and Error Trapping
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Performance: Table Fragmentation
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Administration: SQL Cluster Problem
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T-SQL: Cursor Performance
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DTS: Dynamic SQL in DTS Transaction
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T-SQL: OSQL and Leading Spaces
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Hot Spot
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7. Announcements
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AdventNet announced ManageEngine Applications Manager 6.0, enterprise-ready, Web-based application-management software that facilitates monitoring of databases, servers, services, Web sites, and custom applications. The product's SQL Server Monitoring feature manages SQL Server 2000 servers and ensures optimal access to all the metrics that SQL Server exposes for the database engine and each database instance. The product monitors multiple SQL Server components, including memory utilization, buffer manager statistics, connection statistics, cache details, lock details, SQL statistics, latch details, and access method details. The software's monitoring capabilities include alert generation based on thresholds you set; performance graphing and reporting; connection tracking; and identification of locking activity by user. ManageEngine Applications Manager is priced at $995, and a free 30-day trial download is available. For more information, contact AdventNet at 888-720-9500, 925-924-9500, or [email protected].
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BDS announced SQL Digger 2.0, a free SQL Server search engine that lets you search all your stored procedures, views, UDFs, and triggers for a word, multiple words, or a sentence. The tool finds the objects in which you used the search strings and highlights them in a preview screen to show you where the words are located in the T-SQL code. The tool also lets you drag the contents of any found object to any receiving container (e.g., Query Analyzer, Word). And the latest release comes with an added print functionality with Multi Database Search. Other new features of the tool include the ability to limit the search to a specified object type and print the T-SQL code from the found objects. The tool uses Windows authentication and requires the .NET Framework 1.1. For more information or to download the free tool, visit
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