Visual Studio 2008 Unites Data and Development

April 2008

Learn how you can sync your data and development with this tour of new features and functionality in Visual Studio 2008.

Readers Talk Back to Community Dialog

By Anne Grubb

Readers share their thoughts about recent Community Dialogs, and Itzik Ben-Gan helps a reader out by creating a special "lottery" query.

Dissecting SQL Server’s Top Waits

By Andrew J. Kelly

You know how to collect and report on wait stats. Now, let’s focus on a few wait stats that typically account for most overall system waits.

Set Operations

By Itzik Ben-Gan

Circumvent unsupported logical phases, work around SQL Server 2005’s lack of INTERSECT ALL and EXCEPT ALL, and take advantage of the INTERSECT and EXCEPT operations’ treatment of NULLs.

New Products

By Jeff James

Check out new and improved SQL Server-related products from Datanamic Solutions B.V., CNS International, Caber Computing, and Microsoft.

The Logical Puzzle

By Itzik Ben-Gan

Get the solution to March’s puzzle “Too Clever by Half,” and prepare your mind for April’s puzzle, which involves calculating distance.

SQL Server 2008 Webcasts

By Michael Otey

While SQL Server Magazine can give you info on SQL Server 2008, Microsoft's Webcasts also assist. Here are some links to our favs.

Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server

By Michael Otey

Visual Studio 2008 offers support for three different editions of SQL Server 2005.

LINQ to Your SQL Server Data

By William Sheldon

Build efficient queries using LINQ, which is included in Visual Studio 2008.

Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions

By Michael Otey

Get a taste of the new Visual Studio 2008 development features by downloading one of the free Visual Studio 2005 Express products.

Sharpen Your Basic SQL Server Skills

By Pinalkumar Dave

Get answers to your questions about SQL Server 2005 Surface Area Configuration tools that can help you protect the SQL Server surface area from security breaches perpetrated by unauthorized users or applications.

Further Explorations in Plan-Cache Metadata

By Kalen Delaney

Uncover more valuable metadata that can aid you in troubleshooting and performance-tuning your queries.

MySQL: Sun's Billion Dollar Baby

By Michael Otey

Find out how Sun Technologies' acquisition of MySQL means for the database market.

Data Warehousing: Horizontally Partitioning the Fact Table

By Michelle A. Poolet

Save yourself from having to deal with large, difficult-to-manage fact tables by partitioning the rows.

SQL Server Backup Compression Shootout

By Allan Hirt

A SQL Server expert takes a detailed look at three popular SQL Server backup compression tools.

2 Stored Procedures to Tune Your Indexes

By Bill McEvoy

If you have to perform a full index analysis, here are two T-SQL stored procedures you can use to get detailed information about the indexes in a single table or an entire database.

Query Generates Winning Lottery Numbers!

By Anne Grubb

Itzik Ben-Gan helps out a reader by creating a T-SQL query that generates winning lottery numbers.

T-SQL101, Lesson 2

By Bill McEvoy

Using a database named MyDB, a table named MyTable, and some dummy tables, you can learn how to create T-SQL queries that insert new data, update existing data, and delete old data.

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