Hi All,
As promised I'm posting the 2 presentations from the last meeting:
1. SQL Server 2008 – Business Intelligence, presented by Bernd Schneider (Thanks again for taking the time Bernd!)
New features like improved cube designers, MOLAP enabled write-back capabilities, easy creation and deployment of reports were covered in the session.
2. SQL Server 2008 – Management Studio's New Features, presented by me.
This session delved into some of the top changes that have been brought into SQL Server Management Studio such as:
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Activity Monitor
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Object Explorer Details
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Object Searc
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Server Facet
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Multi-Server Queries
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Intellisens
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T-SQL Debugge
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Object Dependency Viewer
The presentations are saved as PDF, looking forward to seeing you all again next session (Expected to be 1st Tuesday in December 2008)!
Thanks again to Digicomp our location sponsors, SwissITPro as we're its SQL Server Special Interest Group, and Microsoft of course for their strong partnership and continued support of our activities.
Additional Notes:
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A noteworthy comment from Daniel Steiner was that
CU1 is recommended for install prior to installing the Tools. Fortunately My install went pretty smoothly without it :o)
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Another question that I have not investigated fully yet, but we hinted towards it during Q&A was whether there's a performance hit when using multiserver queries, as it determines what databases are available within each instance in the multi-server set. The gut feel from the demo was that it gathers the data when you establish a multiserver query connection, and so time to open a query would be impacted both by the number of connections and the relative bandwidth performance you're getting to the instances themselves.
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Save the date: The
European PASS Conference for 2008 was a roaring success, and we're in the middle of planning the
2009 Conference! Go to the
http://www.european-pass-conference.com/ for details, and email me if you'd like to help with the event's organisation!
Cheers!
