February 2008 - Technical Rollup Mail - SQL

News

Try SQL Server 2008 Today – Your Data, Any Place, Any Time

SQL Server 2008, the next release of Microsoft SQL Server, will provide a comprehensive data platform that is more secure, reliable, manageable and scalable for your mission critical applications, while enabling developers to create new applications that can store and consume any type of data on any device, and enabling all your users to make informed decisions with relevant insights. Download the latest SQL Server 2008 Community Technology Preview (CTP) and try out the latest features of SQL Server 2008 for 180 days! The SQL Server development team uses your feedback to help refine and enhance product features. Download the newest CTP today and share your feedback.

https://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/prodinfo/newfeatures.mspx

https://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/prodinfo/download.mspx

 

SQL Server '08 Adds Dev Perks

SQL Server 2008's promised support for clear encryption could free up enterprise developers' screens for other tasks. With the three-year-old SQL Server 2005 release, developers had to tweak their applications in order to take advantage of the database's encryption. A new resource governor, which along with clear encryption is in the latest community technology preview (CTP), will enable developers and DBAs to prioritize important jobs over not-so-critical tasks, says Francois Ajenstat, director of SQL Server project management.

https://reddevnews.com/news/devnews/article.aspx?editorialsid=878

https://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/Microsoft-to-Prolong-Database-Pricing-Battle-with-SQL-Server-2008/

 

SQL Server as a Data Platform . . . Finally

In my August 2007 editorial “Too Soon for SQL Server 2008?” (InstantDoc ID 96028), I claimed that many businesses running SQL Server as their database platform wouldn’t be ready to migrate to SQL Server 2008. I still think that Microsoft’s SQL Server release schedule isn’t giving its customers time to catch up, but I have to admit that I haven’t found anything negative about the upcoming release. In fact, SQL Server 2008 is the destination that previous SQL Server versions have been working toward.

https://www.sqlmag.com/Articles/ArticleID/97676/97676.html?Ad=1

https://blogs.technet.com/dataplatforminsider/archive/2008/01/25/microsoft-sql-server-2008-roadmap-clarification.aspx

 

Try Visual Studio 2008

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 provides an industry-leading developer experience for Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and the Web. In addition, it continues in the Microsoft tradition of development language innovation. To enable evaluation of Visual Studio 2008, this page provides links to trial versions of Visual Studio 2008.

https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/aa700831.aspx

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=83C3A1EC-ED72-4A79-8961-25635DB0192B&displaylang=en

 

Documents

Best Practices for Migrating Non-Unicode Data Types to Unicode

The database system in a company that is growing internationally must support multilingual characters in tables with Unicode data types. Existing databases that support only non-Unicode information must be migrated from non-Unicode data type to Unicode data type. This paper summarizes best practices for migrating database systems from non-Unicode to Unicode data type.

https://download.microsoft.com/download/d/9/4/d948f981-926e-40fa-a026-5bfcf076d9b9/SQL_bestpract_MigrationToUnicode.docx

 

Database Mirroring and Log Shipping Working Together

Log shipping and database mirroring can work together to provide solutions for high availability and disaster recovery. You can convert an existing log shipping configuration to a database mirroring configuration. Although Microsoft only supports a single mirror database, you can set up log shipping from a database mirroring pair to additional servers, to provide multiple failover sites. Moreover, you can easily switch which pair of instances is using database mirroring and which instances are configured with log shipping.

https://download.microsoft.com/download/d/9/4/d948f981-926e-40fa-a026-5bfcf076d9b9/DBMandLogShipping.docx

 

Analysis Services Many-to-Many Dimensions: Query Performance Optimization Techniques

Many-to-many dimension relationships in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services (SSAS) enable you to easily model complex source schemas and provide great analytical capabilities. This capability frequently comes with a substantial cost in query performance due to the runtime join required by Analysis Services to resolve many-to-many queries. This best practices white paper discusses three many-to-many query performance optimization techniques, including how to implement them, and the performance testing results for each technique. It demonstrates that optimizing many-to-many relationships by compressing the common relationships between the many-to-many dimension and the data measure group, and then defining aggregations on both the data measure group and the intermediate measure group yields the best query performance. The results show dramatic improvement in the performance of many-to-many queries as the reduction in size of the intermediate measure group increases. Test results indicate that the greater the amount of compression, the greater the performance benefits—and that these benefits persist as additional fact data is added to the main fact table (and into the data measure group).

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3494E712-C90B-4A4E-AD45-01009C15C665&displaylang=en

The Impact of Changing Collations and of Changing Data Types from Non-Unicode to Unicode

When a business grows internationally, its database system must support multilingual characters in tables through the use of Unicode data types. This white paper explores the amount of time that it takes to change a table column from a non-Unicode data type to a Unicode data type, along with changing the collation of the database. Use this information to calculate how long it takes to alter large tables.

https://download.microsoft.com/download/d/9/4/d948f981-926e-40fa-a026-5bfcf076d9b9/SQL_bestpract_CollationChange.docx

White Paper: Precision Considerations for Analysis Services Users

This white paper covers accuracy and precision considerations in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services. For example, it is possible to query Analysis Services with similar queries and obtain two different answers. While this appears to be a bug, it actually is due to the fact that Analysis Services caches query results and the imprecision that is associated with approximate data types. This white paper discusses how these issues manifest themselves, why they occur, and best practices to minimize their effect.

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bae8beec-9892-4ecd-a9db-292254895f9c&displaylang=en

Scale-Out Querying with Analysis Services Using SAN Snapshots

This SQL Server Best Practices white paper describes the use of virtual copy SAN snapshots in a load-balanced scalable querying environment for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services to increase the number of concurrent queries to Analysis Services servers with a rapid response time per query. Load-balanced querying distributes the load of all queries among the available servers. The use of the virtual copy SAN snapshots eliminates the need to copy data between an Analysis Services processing server and one or more dedicated Analysis Services query servers. This paper supplements the Scale-Out Querying with Analysis Services white paper.

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7AC8E03D-BF1F-4733-93E0-BC0F6E567608&displaylang=en

Downloads

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 MSIT Comprehensive Configuration Pack for Configuration Manager 2007

The Microsoft SQL Server 2000 MSIT Comprehensive Configuration Pack is designed to be used for managing the configuration of SQL 2000 servers. This configuration pack defines recommended configurations based on an extensive number of settings affecting the configuration of SQL 2000 servers in the Microsoft IT environment. A partial list of the included configuration items and settings can be obtained by downloading the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 MSIT Basic Configuration Pack and/or the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 MSIT Intermediate Configuration Pack. It is recommended that users begin by evaluating their configuration against the Basic configuration pack, and then progress to the Intermediate and Comprehensive configuration packs as desired configurations are verified.

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ae5e69a9-357d-4a23-ba6d-35e4b84149f9&DisplayLang=en

 

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 MSIT Intermediate Configuration Pack for Configuration Manager 2007

The Microsoft SQL Server 2000 MSIT Intermediate Configuration Pack is designed to be used for managing the configuration of SQL 2000 servers. This configuration pack defines recommended configurations based on a substantial number of settings affecting the configuration of SQL 2000 servers in the Microsoft IT environment. A partial list of the included configuration items and settings can be obtained by downloading the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 MSIT Basic Configuration Pack; more extensive configuration items and settings can be obtained by downloading the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 MSIT Comprehensive Configuration Pack. It is recommended that users begin by evaluating their configuration against the Basic configuration pack, and then progress to the Intermediate and Comprehensive configuration packs as desired configurations are verified.

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=33afd9c9-f0b7-4f0f-89ee-62859b7066fb&DisplayLang=en

 

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 MSIT Basic Configuration Pack for Configuration Manager 2007

The Microsoft SQL Server 2000 MSIT Basic Configuration Pack is designed to be used for managing the configuration of SQL 2000 servers. This configuration pack defines recommended configurations based on a limited number of settings affecting the configuration of SQL 2000 servers in the Microsoft IT environment. More extensive configuration items and settings can be obtained by downloading the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 MSIT Intermediate and Comprehensive Configuration Packs. It is recommended that users begin by evaluating their configuration against the Basic configuration pack, and then progress to the Intermediate and Comprehensive configuration packs as desired configurations are verified.

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d702688f-7af1-4107-a70a-2a19f6afdcab&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Assessment Configuration Pack for Gramm-Leach Bliley Act (GLBA)

The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Assessment Configuration Pack for Gramm-Leach Bliley Act was developed in conjunction with Brabeion Software, and contains suggested system configurations that map best practices and standards to the requirements of the Gramm-Leach Bliley Act. This configuration pack defines recommended configurations based on a number of settings-based configuration items, and assesses your system against the desired configuration. Once imported into SCCM 2007, this configuration pack and its included configuration items can be targeted to collections of systems which are then audited for compliance with the recommended configurations. When settings are detected to be out of compliance, events will be generated and sent to the Configuration Manager server where the data is available for reporting.

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fe3a2b70-4ac7-49ee-ba18-748133feead1&DisplayLang=en

 

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Assessment Configuration Pack for Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)

The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Assessment Configuration Pack for Sarbanes-Oxley Act was developed in conjunction with Brabeion Software, and contains suggested system configurations that map best practices and standards to the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. This configuration pack defines recommended configurations based on a number of settings-based configuration items, and assesses your system against the desired configuration. Once imported into SCCM 2007, this configuration pack and its included configuration items can be targeted to collections of systems which are then audited for compliance with the recommended configurations. When settings are detected to be out of compliance, events will be generated and sent to the Configuration Manager server where the data is available for reporting.

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=976df931-a3cf-40e3-802e-3281b1451835&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Assessment Configuration Pack for Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)

The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Assessment Configuration Pack for Federal Information Security Management Act was developed in conjunction with Brabeion Software, and contains suggested system configurations that map best practices and standards to the requirements of the Federal Information Security Management Act. This configuration pack defines recommended configurations based on a number of settings-based configuration items, and assesses your system against the desired configuration. Once imported into SCCM 2007, this configuration pack and its included configuration items can be targeted to collections of systems which are then audited for compliance with the recommended configurations. When settings are detected to be out of compliance, events will be generated and sent to the Configuration Manager server where the data is available for reporting.

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=14862939-4bb0-4e26-b43a-a5953b484239&DisplayLang=en

 

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Assessment Configuration Pack for European Union Data Protection Directive (EUDPD)

The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Assessment Configuration Pack for European Union Data Protection Directive was developed in conjunction with Brabeion Software, and contains suggested system configurations that map best practices and standards to the requirements of the European Union Data Protection Directive. This configuration pack defines recommended configurations based on a number of settings-based configuration items, and assesses your system against the desired configuration. Once imported into SCCM 2007, this configuration pack and its included configuration items can be targeted to collections of systems which are then audited for compliance with the recommended configurations. When settings are detected to be out of compliance, events will be generated and sent to the Configuration Manager server where the data is available for reporting.

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7050d56c-7e5a-479f-b94c-419ede535608&DisplayLang=en

 

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Assessment Configuration Pack for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Assessment Configuration Pack for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was developed in conjunction with Brabeion Software, and contains suggested system configurations that map best practices and standards to the requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. This configuration pack defines recommended configurations based on a number of settings-based configuration items, and assesses your system against the desired configuration. Once imported into SCCM 2007, this configuration pack and its included configuration items can be targeted to collections of systems which are then audited for compliance with the recommended configurations. When settings are detected to be out of compliance, events will be generated and sent to the Configuration Manager server where the data is available for reporting.

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=312505ac-f51c-4642-9a36-78e6974bc5ee&DisplayLang=en

 

SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer

The SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) gathers data from Microsoft Windows and SQL Server configuration settings. BPA uses a predefined list of SQL Server 2005 recommendations and best practices to determine if there are potential issues in the database environment. This download is the January 2008 release of SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer.

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=da0531e4-e94c-4991-82fa-f0e3fbd05e63&DisplayLang=en

Completing Setup for Microsoft Windows SBS Premium Technologies

Windows SBS 2003 SP1 Premium Edition customers can learn how to install ISA Server 2004 and SQL Server 2000 on your Windows SBS 2003 SP1 server. Step-by-step instructions guide you through installing ISA Server 2004, installing the Firewall Client on Windows SBS client computers, installing SQL Server 2000, and installing FrontPage 2003 on a Windows SBS client computer. Instructions are also provided to upgrade the Windows SBS SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (Windows) (MSDE) SHAREPOINT instance to full SQL Server 2000 with Service Pack 4.

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=87a48d35-54ab-4f63-90a3-a884311202e1&DisplayLang=en

 

ReportViewer Samples for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

Visual Studio 2008 includes ReportViewer controls that you can use to add rich data reporting to Windows forms and ASP.NET applications. This download provides two complete samples so that you can view the control and sample reports in a finished application.

· The RSSNewsReader sample is a Windows form application written in Visual C#. It retrieves data from live news feeds and presents that data in a report. The report demonstrates how to use parameters to filter the dataset.

· The Web Log Analyzer is a Windows form application written in Visual Basic. It analyzes log files created by Web servers, such as Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). It includes reports that show statistics on page hits, server activity, and referrals from other sites.

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8af004bd-ee06-43fa-a5b6-955689a66c84&DisplayLang=en

Project Server 2003: Rename Project Tool

The Rename Project tool enables Project Server 2003 Administrators to rename a project, or multiple projects, that are stored in the same SQL Server database. This tool combines a PDS extension with an application.

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c4a6a749-f0ff-4846-9ec1-4add5e493fa6&DisplayLang=en

 

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Assessment Configuration Pack for Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)

The Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Assessment Configuration Pack for Federal Information Security Management Act was developed in conjunction with Brabeion Software, and contains suggested system configurations that map best practices and standards to the requirements of the Federal Information Security Management Act. This configuration pack defines recommended configurations based on a number of settings-based configuration items, and assesses your system against the desired configuration. Once imported into SCCM 2007, this configuration pack and its included configuration items can be targeted to collections of systems which are then audited for compliance with the recommended configurations. When settings are detected to be out of compliance, events will be generated and sent to the Configuration Manager server where the data is available for reporting.

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=79d68fb7-f471-4bf2-aefd-cd60c75546f0&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Assessment Configuration Pack for Gramm-Leach Bliley Act (GLBA)

The Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Assessment Configuration Pack for Gramm-Leach Bliley Act was developed in conjunction with Brabeion Software, and contains suggested system configurations that map best practices and standards to the requirements of the Gramm-Leach Bliley Act. This configuration pack defines recommended configurations based on a number of settings-based configuration items, and assesses your system against the desired configuration. Once imported into SCCM 2007, this configuration pack and its included configuration items can be targeted to collections of systems which are then audited for compliance with the recommended configurations. When settings are detected to be out of compliance, events will be generated and sent to the Configuration Manager server where the data is available for reporting.

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=83519002-4ed9-43f2-84e3-3ab1956a173e&DisplayLang=en

 

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Assessment Configuration Pack for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

The Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Assessment Configuration Pack for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was developed in conjunction with Brabeion Software, and contains suggested system configurations that map best practices and standards to the requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. This configuration pack defines recommended configurations based on a number of settings-based configuration items, and assesses your system against the desired configuration. Once imported into SCCM 2007, this configuration pack and its included configuration items can be targeted to collections of systems which are then audited for compliance with the recommended configurations. When settings are detected to be out of compliance, events will be generated and sent to the Configuration Manager server where the data is available for reporting.

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=24cd5c8f-e176-433d-b75d-18c06e5f6f76&DisplayLang=en

 

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Assessment Configuration Pack for Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)

The Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Assessment Configuration Pack for Sarbanes-Oxley Act was developed in conjunction with Brabeion Software, and contains suggested system configurations that map best practices and standards to the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. This configuration pack defines recommended configurations based on a number of settings-based configuration items, and assesses your system against the desired configuration. Once imported into SCCM 2007, this configuration pack and its included configuration items can be targeted to collections of systems which are then audited for compliance with the recommended configurations. When settings are detected to be out of compliance, events will be generated and sent to the Configuration Manager server where the data is available for reporting.

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d8757847-8ba8-4de2-b7a6-b6f1f610a28c&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Assessment Configuration Pack for European Union Data Protection Directive (EUDPD)

The Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Assessment Configuration Pack for European Union Data Protection Directive was developed in conjunction with Brabeion Software, and contains suggested system configurations that map best practices and standards to the requirements of the European Union Data Protection Directive. This configuration pack defines recommended configurations based on a number of settings-based configuration items, and assesses your system against the desired configuration. Once imported into SCCM 2007, this configuration pack and its included configuration items can be targeted to collections of systems which are then audited for compliance with the recommended configurations. When settings are detected to be out of compliance, events will be generated and sent to the Configuration Manager server where the data is available for reporting.

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1629d04c-c5a5-4752-a06f-4bc4584ae1b7&DisplayLang=en

SQL Server 2008 CTP

Microsoft SQL Server 2008, the next release of Microsoft SQL Server, provides a comprehensive data platform that is more secure, reliable, manageable and scalable for your mission critical applications, while enabling developers to create new applications that can store and consume any type of data on any device, and enabling all your users to make informed decisions with relevant insights.

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3bf4c5ca-b905-4ebc-8901-1d4c1d1da884&DisplayLang=en

Events / Webcasts

SQL 2005 Webcasts and Virtual Labs

SQL Server 2005 is data management and analysis software that delivers enhanced security, availability, and scalability to mission-critical data applications—while making them easier to develop, deploy, and manage. Choose from a wide range of live and on-demand webcasts. Or take part in a virtual lab, which allows you to cut your teeth on the new platform by experimenting with its different capabilities.

SQL Server 2005 Webcasts

TechNet Webcast: Security Enhancements in SQL Server 2008 (Level 300)Tuesday, February 05, 2008 11:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 introduced many security enhancements, from data encryption to advanced context impersonation. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 further helps administrators protect their database with the introduction of new features such as Transparent Database Encryption, Extensible Key Management, and Auditing. In this session, we describe the new security enhancements in SQL Server 2008 and discuss how to best take advantage of them.

TechNet Webcast: Security Enhancements in SQL Server 2008 (Level 300)

MCP Live Meeting: SQL Server 2008 and Your Microsoft Certifications (Session 1)Wednesday, February 06, 2008 7:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Join the Microsoft Certification team for guidance on your certification path for SQL Server. In this meeting, we will introduce our plans for SQL Server 2008 training and certification, review the SQL Server 2005 certifications, and answer your individual questions about the path that is right for you, in Business Intelligence, Database Development, or Database Administration.

MCP Live Meeting: SQL Server 2008 and Your Microsoft Certifications (Session 1)

MCP Live Meeting: SQL Server 2008 and Your Microsoft Certifications (Session 2)Wednesday, February 06, 2008 5:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Join the Microsoft Certification team for guidance on your certification path for SQL Server. In this meeting, we will introduce our plans for SQL Server 2008 training and certification, review the SQL Server 2005 certifications, and answer your individual questions about the path that is right for you, in Business Intelligence, Database Development, or Database Administration.

MCP Live Meeting: SQL Server 2008 and Your Microsoft Certifications (Session 2)

TechNet Webcast: SQL Server 2008 (Part 1 of 3): High-Performance Data Warehousing (Level 300)Thursday, February 07, 2008 9:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Attend this session to learn how to incorporate the new features in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 to provide a high-performance data warehouse that can scale to larger number of users and growing volumes of data. In this session, we cover new technologies like partitioned table parallelism, star join query enhancements, and Grouping Sets.

TechNet Webcast: SQL Server 2008 (Part 1 of 3): High-Performance Data Warehousing (Level 300)

Momentum Webcast: Unlocking the Business Intelligence Capabilities of SQL Server (Level 100)Monday, February 11, 2008 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Did you know that Microsoft SQL Server enables you to centrally control security, access to, and organization of your data - giving users the ability to access production reports or perform interactive analysis directly in Microsoft Office Excel? As you are constantly challenged to do more with less, you must squeeze as much value as possible from existing investments in technology infrastructure. In this webcast, we show you how to leverage your existing SQL Server investment to unlock the often overlooked, built-in Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities and help improve the operational and financial performance of your organization.

Momentum Webcast: Unlocking the Business Intelligence Capabilities of SQL Server (Level 100)

Upgrade SQL Now – Live Meeting SeriesTuesday, February 12, 2008 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

These sessions will cover the issues around upgrading SQL including features and tips. Feel free to register for all any number of the offered. Session will run from December 2007 through May 2008. SESSION III: SQL Reporting Services 2005 & 2008 and Report Builder – Reporting Services was released in Jan. 2004 as part of SQL Server 2000. It helps to deliver information to the right people in a variety of formats and channels. SQL Server 2005 has expanded on the usefulness of this feature and has also added a new end-user tool called Report Builder. Join us to learn how SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services along with the Report Builder tool can get the information to the right people faster.

Upgrade SQL Now - Live Meeting Series

MSDN geekSpeak Webcast: Extending SQL Server Integration Services with Reza Madani (Level 100)Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

MSDN geekSpeak is a new kind of webcast series, hosted by Developer Evangelists from Microsoft. Dispensing with slide decks and scripted demos, geekSpeak webcasts bring you industry experts in a sort of "talk-radio" format. These experts share their knowledge and experience around a particular developer technology, and are ready to answer your questions real-time during the webcast. Learn about industry trends, new technology, real-world experiences, and more. During the webcasts you’ll hear lively discussion and debate, and can even add your comments to the fray. Who knows, you might even see a whiteboard sketch or an off-the-cuff demo.

MSDN geekSpeak Webcast: Extending SQL Server Integration Services with Reza Madani (Level 100)

TechNet Webcast: SQL Server 2008 (Part 2 of 3): Manage Large-Scale Data Warehousing (Level 300)Monday, February 18, 2008 9:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Attend this session to learn how to incorporate the new features in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 to manage large-scale data warehouses that can scale to larger number of users and growing volumes of data. In this session, we cover new technologies like Resource Governor, data compression, and enhanced indexed views.

TechNet Webcast: SQL Server 2008 (Part 2 of 3): Manage Large-Scale Data Warehousing (Level 300)

TechNet Webcast: Using the New Policy-Based Management Framework in SQL Server 2008 (Level 300)Thursday, February 21, 2008 9:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 introduces a new policy-based framework for database administrators, which can significantly improve administrative productivity and reliability. Database administrators declare their administrative intent through policies that are then applied by the system. This approach reduces the potential for administrative error and enables the framework to monitor or enforce the policies in an automated fashion. Not only can policies be applied to individual databases or tables on a single server, but they can also seamlessly be scaled to include large collections of objects spanning many server instances.

TechNet Webcast: Using the New Policy-Based Management Framework in SQL Server 2008 (Level 300)

TechNet Webcast: SQL Server 2008 (Part 3 of 3): Integrate Growing Data Volumes (Level 300)Monday, February 25, 2008 11:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Attend this session to learn how to integrate growing volumes of data with the new enhancements in Microsoft SQL Server 2008. We cover new technologies, like Change Data Capture and MERGE SQL statement, in addition to scalability improvements in SQL Server Integration Services, like lookup enhancements and data profiling.

TechNet Webcast: SQL Server 2008 (Part 3 of 3): Integrate Growing Data Volumes (Level 300)

Further on-demand webcasts are available here: https://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetsqlserver2005.mspx

New KB's

Error message when you install the WOW version of SQL Server 2005 on a 64-bit operating system: "Windows Installer has stopped working"

https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=945935

 

FIX: Unexpected results may be returned when you discontinuously run MDX queries that cross both hierarchies against the dimension in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944001

 

FIX: Error message when you run an MDX query that contains calculated members in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services: "Internal error: An unexpected exception occured"

https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=945900

 

The default value of the MINIMUM_SUPPORT parameter does not limit the cases for the Microsoft Association algorithm in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=941859

 

FIX: Error message when you run a parent package that contains some child packages in SQL Server 2005 Integration Services: "Error: 0xC001000E"

https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=945893

 

FIX: You receive one or more error messages when you run the DBCC CHECKTABLE statement against a partitioned table in SQL Server 2005

https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=945913

 

The SQL Server 2005 Setup program generates an incorrect error message when you install a SQL Server 2005 failover cluster and the Setup program cannot access the cluster resource

https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=945937

 

FIX: The row at the publisher contains incorrect values in the column that has the UniqueIdentifier data type when you synchronize a subscription in a merge replication between SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition

https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=945897

 

FIX: A query that uses the FOR XML AUTO clause generates different results in SQL Server 2000 and in SQL Server 2005

https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=945901

 

FIX: The replication latency is high when you use transactional replication in a multiple-instance failover cluster environment of SQL Server 2005

https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=945903

 

FIX: You cannot cancel the query execution immediately if you open a fast forward-only cursor for the query in SQL Server 2005

https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=945442

 

FIX: Error message when you run a query that uses query notification in SQL Server 2005: "Process <SPID> generated fatal exception c000001d EXCEPTION_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION. SQL Server is terminating this process"

https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=945902

 

FIX: You receive incorrect data from SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services after you use the Page Heap tool (Pageheap.exe) to troubleshoot heap corruption issues

https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=945274

 

The synchronization operation stops responding when you synchronize databases between two instances of SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services when the TCP Chimney Offload technology is enabled

https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=947065

 

FIX: Incorrect data is inserted into a table when you run a 32-bit SQL Server 2005 Integration Services package on a 64-bit computer

https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=945899

 

Description of the Replay Markup Language (RML) Utilities for SQL Server

https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944837

 

FIX: A data source view that connects to an Oracle database generates incorrect relationships when you develop a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services project by using BIDS

https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=946032

 

FIX: An access violation occurs when you run an MDX query by using a user account that is a member of some different roles in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=947196

 

FIX: Error message when you preview a SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services report that uses the Microsoft .NET Data Provider 1.0 for SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence: "An error occurred during local report processing"

https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=946022

 

FIX: Error message when you run a maintenance plan that contains a Back Up Database task in SQL Server 2005: "Failed:(-1073548784) Executing the query 'BACKUP DATABASE"

https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=946036

 

FIX: Error message when you run a complex query after you install Cumulative Update 3 or Cumulative Update 4 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2: "The query processor ran out of internal resources and could not produce a query plan"

https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=946020