Check out the new look and feel of the sqlcat.com!  Now you have easy access and views of our Top 10 Lists, Technical Notes, Whitepapers, and Toolbox.  As well, now our blogs our mirrored to sqlcat.com for easy access to all SQLCAT tips, best practices, and lessons learned. Right now, you can see our graphic noting the ''SQLCAT ...

After a few recent conversations with CIO and CTO types, I was amazed that there is still the concept out there that SQL Server doesn’t scale well.  So I sat down to write a lengthy blog to dispel that rumor.  After doing some research, I found that there is so much already written and available on the web that I decided to gather all ...

The SQL Customer Advisory Team has put the final touches on the site http://sqlcat.com/ which is our new hub for all things that are part of the SQLCAT!  Our new site is a portal to all SQLCAT resources including: Top 10 Lists: Summary list of Best Practices and Recommendations Technical Notes: Deep level technical short papers ...

Tom Davidson wrote: I've been working with database applications for the last 25 years. A particular area of interest for me is SQL Server performance. As part of the Microsoft SQL Server Development Customer Advisory Team (SQLCAT) for the last 7 years, I've had an opportunity to observe what works (and more importantly what doesn't !) in the ...

Three new best practices articles are available at the SQL Server Best Practices site on Technet (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb331794.aspx). Two of the articles are on Analysis Services Processing and Querying best practices: Analysis Services Processing Best ...

You can check out the three new Best Practices Articles Predeployment I/O Best Practiceshttp://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/bestpractice/pdpliobp.mspxby Mike Ruthruff Partial Database Availabilityhttp://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/bestpractice/pdbavail.mspxby Danny Tambs Comparing Tables Organized with Clustered ...

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