Mat Stephen's Azure Data Services Blog
All things Azure Data Services (previously All things SQL Server). Complied by Matthew Stephen - Data Solutions Architect (Azure), Microsoft UK
Oracle RAC, Grid, IBM, and Microsoft: A Corporate Altercation or Religious Divergence
People often ask me, “When Microsoft is going to get into the type of clustering as defined by...
Author: Mat_stephen_1 Date: 01/10/2005
SQL Server Health and History Tool (SQLH2)
This tool has been available for a couple of months but I only found out about it yesterday; I was...
Author: Mat_stephen_1 Date: 01/07/2005
Catch the SQL Server 2005 Express, it’s the future and it’s free!
We’ve all been waiting a long time for SQL Server 20005 and not everyone has been able to get the...
Author: Mat_stephen_1 Date: 01/05/2005
Hitchhicker’s Guide to SQL Server Reporting Services author to present at IT Forum Highlights - Birmingham UK 13th Jan 05
Hitchhiker’s Guide to SQL Server Reporting Services is an excellent book in the Hitchhiker’s series...
Author: Mat_stephen_1 Date: 01/03/2005
The SQL Server Web Data Administrator enables you to easily manage your SQL Server data, wherever you are!
Because it often pains me to find so many of our (SQL Server) customers aren’t aware of the freebies...
Author: Mat_stephen_1 Date: 12/22/2004
Benchmark your SAN or disk subsystem IO throughput – with SQLIO, free to Microsoft SQL Server users
Benchmarking systems is one of the most important things you can do; amazing how many people don’t...
Author: Mat_stephen_1 Date: 12/22/2004
3rd Party Report Builders for SQL Server Reporting Services that don't require Visual Studio know how.
A recurring concern for IT Pros looking to employ SQL Server Reporting Services is the apparent need...
Author: Mat_stephen_1 Date: 12/20/2004
MSDN Webcast: Identifying Application Performance Problems with SQL Server and Shadowfax (Level 400)
Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time Chuck Delouis, Enterprise Architect,...
Author: Mat_stephen_1 Date: 12/20/2004
MSDN Webcast: New Features in Reporting Services Service Pack 2 (Level 400)
Monday, January 10, 2005 - 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time Geoff Snowman, MSDN DEVELOPER COMM...
Author: Mat_stephen_1 Date: 12/20/2004
MSDN Webcast: Application Performance Tuning Using SQL Server Profiler 2005 (Level 200)
Friday, January 07, 2005 - 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time Geoff Snowman, MSDN DEVELOPER COMM...
Author: Mat_stephen_1 Date: 12/20/2004
TechNet Webcast: Migrating Oracle and UNIX Systems to SQL and Windows - Level: 200
Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 11:30 - 1:00 PM Pacific Time Peter Larsen, Software Development...
Author: Mat_stephen_1 Date: 12/20/2004
TechNet Webcast: A Technical Overview of SQL 2005 High Availability Features (Part 2 of 2) - Level: 200
Friday, January 14, 2005 - 9:30 - 10:30 AM Pacific Time Matthew Hester, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft...
Author: Mat_stephen_1 Date: 12/20/2004
TechNet Webcast: A Technical Overview of SQL 2005 High Availability Features (Part 1 of 2) - Level: 200
Friday, January 07, 2005 - 9:30 - 10:30 AM Pacific Time Bryan Von Axelson, TechNet Presenter,...
Author: Mat_stephen_1 Date: 12/20/2004
Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Improve TCO by Migrating your Siebel Applications to Microsoft SQL Server
Friday, January 07, 2005 - 8:00 AM -9:00 AM PT Pacific Time Anu Chawla and Frank Mcbath,...
Author: Mat_stephen_1 Date: 12/20/2004
TechNet Webcast: SQL Server 2005 Technical Overview - Level: 200
Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 8:00 - 9:30 AM Pacific Time Bryan Von Axelson, TechNet Presenter,...
Author: Mat_stephen_1 Date: 12/20/2004
SQL Server can run your enterprise? Here's how to prove it
SQL Server 2000 has to live with the legacy that it was once called SQL Server 6.5 – if a database...
Author: Mat_stephen_1 Date: 12/15/2004
SQL Server Security – you can’t do without it
Security – I find it very hard to get enthusiastic about security, after all it doesn’t visibly do...
Author: Mat_stephen_1 Date: 12/15/2004
SQL Server High Availability – I have to talk about this so much I feel like a scratched record.
Rather than write endless amounts here I’m just going to describe some useful pointers that you can...
Author: Mat_stephen_1 Date: 12/15/2004
SQL Server Accelerator for Business Intelligence (SSABI) - often unheard of and sometimes underestimated
SQL Server Accelerator for Business Intelligence (SSABI) is one of the best and most exciting tools...
Author: Mat_stephen_1 Date: 12/08/2004
My Introduction to the Blogsphere - and my first useful tip for SAP enthusiasts
Hello, my name is Matthew Stephen, I work as a Microsoft SQL Server Evangelist, based in Reading UK....
Author: Mat_stephen_1 Date: 12/07/2004