There are advantages and disadvantages to today's application-tier caching techniques. Consider your data caching options for improving data-intensive application performance.
- By Marie-Anne Neimat
- 03/28/2007
Less than a month after shipping SP2 for SQL Server 2005, Microsoft issues a hotfix to prevent maintenance plan cleanup tasks from removing data before the specified cleanup interval.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/01/2007
There's too much going on in the Visual Studio space for any one developer to keep track of it all?so we're going to do it for you. New downloads available include Visual Studio SP1 and the latest Orcas CTP.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 03/01/2007
Microsoft plans to ship service pack 2 (SP2) of its SQL Server 2005 database this quarter.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/15/2007
The architect for the Microsoft SQL Server Group is interviewed about the various research Sharp languages and their impact on future software development and programming.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 02/15/2007
SP2 provides support for Windows Vista and Office 2007, while also offering new data compression, business intelligence, and security capabilities.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/01/2007
Scott Guthrie recently sat with VSM to discuss Microsoft's ASP.NET AJAX and the status of other Web-related projects.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 12/01/2006
Discover an array of OLAP APIs for developing top-notch dedicated OLAP applications.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 05/01/2006
Learn how you can apply Integration Services to the ETL paradigm in your business.
- By Trey Johnson
- 05/01/2006
See how the LINQ syntax, specifically DLinq and XLinq, can increase your productivity and reduce the possibility for error.
A forthcoming Win32 upgrade to SSM joins SSE with SSX and Jet in Microsoft's new triumvirate of freely distributable database engines.
- By Roger Jennings
- 05/01/2006
Understand the business imperative for SQL Server 2005''s new OLAP capabilities as well as how to implement them.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 05/01/2006
Check out the new reporting tools in SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005.
Discover how SQL Server 2005's SQLCMD tool can enhance your scripting processes.
- By Josef Finsel
- 05/01/2006
With SQL Server 2005''s Report Builder, users have the ability to consume both multidimensional and relational data.
- By Trey Johnson
- 05/01/2006
You'll find several areas of interest regarding XML usage in SQL Server Reporting Services.
Learn how defining levels of database access, for both nonsensitive and sensitive data, can help protect you from system failure.
- By Alex Papadimoulis
- 05/01/2006
Ensure that your data is accurate, and find undetectable bugs in your applications with SQL Server's Data Integrity feature.
- By Alex Papadimoulis
- 05/01/2006
Database Definition Language (DDL) makes maintaining changes between your databases easier.
- By Alex Papadimoulis
- 05/01/2006
Check out these publications, tools, SDKs, and community sites for additional information about SQL Server.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 05/01/2006