SQL Server 2008 Installation Strategies and Best Practices Part 2 of 5 Greetings, last week I initiated this blog series which focuses on best practices and installation strategies when deploying SQL ...

Recently organizations, fellow SQL Server MVPs and DBAs have asked me for resources on how to install a SQL Server 2008 Failover Cluster from both a SQL Server and a Windows Server 2008 perspective.

In-Depth Laying the Groundwork for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Redmond's new database server is a complex product often running mission-critical apps. You can't afford to not get it right. By Josh Jones ...

Ok, by now my first upgrade experience with Katmai is well-documented. So I thought I’d pass along some of my other experiences and some of the things I’ve learned. My Vista upgrade: I have a copy of ...

SQL Server 2008系统诞生于08年3月13日，在微软2008新一代企业应用平台与开发技术发布大会上，微软宣布向企业用户大众同时发布三款核心应用平台产品：Windows Server 2008、Visual Studio 2008、SQL Server 2008，此次微软发布的三大产品对企业实现“动态IT”愿景。随着Windows ...

This week we will discuss how to troubleshoot different assembly errors that we get while troubleshooting installs for SQL Server. I’ll focus this article more on SQL Server and Windows systems.

The SQL team in Redmond has made good on its promise to deliver more timely releases of SQL Server. Now that SQL Server 2008 is being released this month, it's time for you to do your homework and ...