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I recently ran across the following question on the Microsoft SQL Server newsgroup: "Which should give better SQL Server performance: a server with a single-processor 1.6GHz Pentium 4 processor with 1GB of RAM or a server with dual 700MHz Pentium...
Microsoft announced that the beta version of Microsoft Office Visio 2003 will be available later this year. Visio 2003 features improved diagramming functions and libraries of shapes. Microsoft has also integrated Visio with XML to let the product...
We database professionals constantly strive to get every last ounce of performance improvement out of our systems. We bend over backwards to make our systems run faster and better. But while we're worrying about tweaks, we sometimes forget about...
According to a new report from research firm Gartner, the database market experienced a decline in sales in 2002, but Microsoft SQL Server experienced a substantial increase in sales and market share. In 2002, economic troubles hit the database...
Microsoft released several new articles that provide product fixes and information for SQL Server customers. Two of the fixes specifically address problems that DBAs might encounter when they install SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP3)...
The race for supremacy in the Transaction Processing Performance Council's (TPC's) TPC-C benchmark continued as Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard (HP) posted new results yesterday in the nonclustered TPC-C category. The race has heated up in recent...