Microsoft's Donald Farmer shares his choices for must-read SQL Server blogs.

Microsoft's Donald Farmer explains how PowerPivot enables your company's business users to help themselves to business intelligence.

Learn more about SQL from the SQL Customer Advisory Team team.

Oracle appears to be tying companies into the Oracle ecosystem by acquiring other strategic suppliers instead of by building compelling products.

Learn how virtualization can help your servers run at a higher utilization rate.

News from the SQL Server team.

While virtualization and consolidation are often mentioned in the same breath, they're not the same thing.

BI systems built on the SQL Server 2008 platform can scale to meet the needs of the very largest organizations and provide businesses of all sizes with a competitive advantagesupporting better decision making and helping executives spot emerging business opportunities.

Developers and DBAs need to be more diligent in establishing procedures to secure their corporate data. With the introduction of SQL Server 2008, Microsoft provided a number of new security features, including Transparent Data Encryption (TDE). Join Gregory Larsen as he discusses what TDE is and the minimal amount of effort it takes to encrypt your corporate data using it.

A global electronics firm deployed Microsoft’s BI platform to implement its market demand-based supply-chain management.

SQL Server 2008 can immediately help your business meet the challenges of todays economic environment and prepare for tomorrows opportunities.

SQL Server 2008's new compression options can help you reclaim some of your valuable disk space and postpone the purchase of additional disk capacity for a while, maybe even years. Greg Larsen discusses table and backup compression options that will help you reduce your database disk space usage.

With any consolidation effort you need to be concerned about how well merged application and/or database services will play together. As you start to think about how your corporation might take advantage of consolidation for your SQL Server environment, you might want to look at SQL Server 2008's Resource Governor, which can help you manage CPU and memory usage by throttling down resource-intensive processes.

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Download a framework for evaluating the potential financial impact of upgrading from a previous version of SQL Server to SQL Server 2008.

Turkish Bank processes annual transactions in just eight hours due to new infrastructure.

Running SQL Server 2008 in a Hyper-V environment.

SQL Server 2008 business intelligence.

All questions related to SSIS, transforms/data flow, control flow, and other related topics.

All questions and discussions related to data-mining in SQL Server.

Report Server, Report Designer, Report Builder, and other reporting-related discussions.

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