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SQL Server 2012 Express LocalDB RC0 is Available

Since a few days, Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Express LocalDB Release Candidate 0 is online.

SQL Server 2012 ‘Denali’: the Release Candidate is available

We looked forward to and it has finally arrived... Since Friday,  Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Release Candidate 0 is online.

SQL Server 2012 ‘Denali’: a new panel of DMVs

Dynamic management views (DMVs) return server state information that can be used to monitor the health of a server instance, diagnose problems and tune performance.Since few months, I test the future new version SQL Server 2012 codename Denali and(…)

SQL Server 2012 ‘Denali’ : AlwaysOn High Availability – Restore is blocked

During our test to create a failover clustering with the new function 'AlwaysOn High Availability', we had a few difficulties to overcome like the restoring of databases of the secondary cluster node. In this article, we will just explain you(…)

Windows Server 8 Hyper-V 3.0: a real step forward in virtualization

As we are on Microsoft Connection Days 2011 in Lausanne yesterday, we have a presentation of Windows Server 8 and specifically of Hyper-V 3.0.I take this opportunity to introduce some news about this.

SQL Server Tuning: Detect SPARSE columns candidate

dbi services search and test all tools or functions possible to optimize or to win something to propose the best tuning possible in their client.The property of Spare columns is not the most used in client environment that we(…)

Diving into Databases

By dbi services, we are a few poeples passionate by diving.We take this opportunity to let you dive into the two databases lakes Oracle and SQL server and see their similarities and differences. For this first level of diving(…)

A preview of Windows 8 – codename Chidori

With the first video from Windows 8 the 02/06/2011 on YouTube, dbi services must talk about it to present you some information about Windows 8.

A brief PowerShell 2.0 overview

SQL server 2008 has PowerShell and at the end of this article, I speak of this topic but to use correctly Powershell, you must have a basic notion about this technologie. In microsoft Techdays in Basel, Marc van Orsouw presents(…)

Il était une fois … SQL Server!

Cet article propose une introduction à Microsoft SQL Server en peignant son historique et en procurant un rapide aperçu de son architecture et des termes associés à cette technologie.