Torsten Schuessler

Thomas H. Grohser discusses the challenges of designing a robust backup and restore solutions for very large databases (VLDBs) in this SQL Server Technical… more »

SQLCAT, has published a new whitepaper / technical case study High Availability and Disaster Recovery at ServiceU for SQL Server 2008. Follow up: SQLCAT:… more »

Greg Low, has published a whitepaper Plan Caching in SQL Server 2008, it's an update of the whitepaper "Batch compilation, Recompilation and Plan Caching Issues in SQL Server 2005" by Arun Marathe, targeted at SQL Server 2008. Summary: This paper… more »

The Cumulative update package 3 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 (Build 10.00.2723) is available: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971491/en-usAnd here you can get the whole information of builds that were released after SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1… more »

SQLCAT, has published a whitepaper SQL Server 2008 Failover Clustering for SQL Server 2008 failover clustering. Summary: This white paper complements the existing documentation on planning, implementation, and administration of a SQL Server 2008… more »

The Cumulative update package 2 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 (Build 10.00.2714) is available: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969099/en-usAnd here you can get the whole information of builds that were released after SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1… more »

SQLCAT, has published a whitepaper Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices for SQL Server for configuring optimal disk performance. Follow up: SQLCAT: http://sqlcat.com/whitepapers/archive/2009/05/11/disk-partition-alignment-best-practices-for-sql-… more »

There is a new withe paper on SQL Server 2008 performance troubleshooting and covers the following in depth: CPU Bottlenecks Memory Bottlenecks I/O BottlenecksSlow-Running Queries Extended EventsData Collector and the MDWDownload from the Microsoft… more »

Is it true? YES, it is!Don't worry - be happy; Aaron Bertrand explains it in his post: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/aaron_bertrand/archive/2009/04/15/sql-server-2008-sp1-cumulative-update-1-is-available.aspx The Cumulative update package 1 for SQL Server… more »

It's out. The final release of SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 (Build 10.00.2531.00) is now available: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=66ab3dbb-bf3e-4f46-9559-ccc6a4f9dc19Here the KB-Article of SP1: List of the… more »