Best Products of 2009

December 2009

Explore the top products voted by editors and the community in backup and recovery, business intelligence, database management, database monitoring, development, server hardware, storage, SharePoint, training and certification, and virtualization.

Is SQL Server 2008 R2 For You?

By Michael Otey

Some things to consider in making a decision to upgrade to SQL Server 2008 R2.

DBCC CHECKDB for Very Large Databases

By David Paul Giroux

Running DBCC can be problematic on VLDBs. Use the author's Admin/Worker Job approach to ease the process.

2009 SQL Server Magazine Editors' Best and Community Choice Awards

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We paired off top product picks from editors and the community in 11 categories, including business intelligence, database management, and virtualization.

Building Your First Cube

By Derek Comingore

Jump into advanced BI by using this step-by-step guide to making your first cube.

Passing NULL Parameters

By William Vaughn

Have you ever had a stored procedure that could accept a NULL value as a parameter but didn't seem to work correctly when you did so? Here's what might have gone wrong.

Administer WSS 3.0 Content Databases from SQL Server

By Wendy Henry

Find out how to use specific T-SQL queries to pull useful information out of tables in SharePoint’s content databases.

Calculating Concurrent Sessions, Part 2

By Itzik Ben-Gan

Itzik presents a set-based solution with linear complexity that performs better than the previous solutions. He also discusses a set-based solution that will outperform all other solutions once SQL Server supports it.

SQL Server PowerShell Extensions

By Kevin Kline

Automate even the most difficult SQL Server administrative tasks using this free PowerShell script set.

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