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Managing Change with Your SQL Server
We’ll look into what options you have for managing change – from documenting your systems to how triggers work and how you can apply to them to your databases as an audit measure. We’ll also investigate other technologies you’ll want to know about when considering how you control and manage change with SQL Server.
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> Live date: 3/11/2008 at 12:00pm Noon Pacific
Congratulations Tom Swalls!
A quick congratulations to Tom Swalls, he’s our winner for the lifetime pass to all SSWUG Virtual Conferences! Tom was an attendee at the February Virtual Conference and his drawing was picked as the grand prize winner, winning the lifetime pass to the conference. Congratulations!
SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Path – Getting Better Defined?
It’s clear that there will be a huge assortment of information on SQL Server 2008 and its features. You’ll find that here on SSWUG.ORG as well as other sites, no problem. But what I’ve been really keeping an eye on is the list of enhancements that are specific enough and meaningful enough to drive a company to upgrade.
My hope is that there will be a list of updates – one that we can almost use as a checklist – so we can determine the upgrade path. It appears that this is almost a reality. I’m sure too that this will get more and more solid as we go toward actual availability, but the differentiators are already beginning to show. Office and BI – if these are things and integration points you’re working with, you’ll want to be considering the upgrade. If you have systems that are beating up the server to extract and report on information – be it ad-hoc reporting or simply repeat reporting with complex requirements, it seems like a pretty clear choice.
There are specific performance areas, and new functionality too – and it seems like these are pretty well-defined, rather than saying "SQL Server 2008 is faster!" we can get more information about what types of situations it’s faster in. Are you seeing this type of information too, or am I all wet? It just seems like the updates are more compartmentalized on a very broad basis (I know, a contradiction) such that it may actually be easier to summarize the benefits you can look forward to for your own implementations.
Drop me a note, let me know what you’re seeing…
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