Another part of Technet webcast series on SQL Server 2008. In this part a focus on IT professionals and the SQL Server 2008 the Trusted Platform. In the first part of the series we spent time looking at how Contoso was using SQL Server 2008 as a productivity platform. Now we change direction from developers...
Security - a major ingredient for every Enterprise to avoid the adversaries attempt to invade your customers’ networks and access their servers—to bring them down, infect them with viruses, or steal information about customers or employees, every day! The recent release of Windows Server 2008 from Microsoft...
What kind of security features you adopt to protect your data? Login security, permissions and unauthorised access to your data, there is more you can do with SQL Server 2008 new feature called TDE - Transperent Data Encryption that is provided automatically. Before that you need to know few things about...
As you may be aware about new features within SQL Server 2008, one of the them is Resource Governor which is a feature than you can use to manage SQL Server workload and system resource consumption. It will enable you to specify limits on the amount of CPU and memory that incoming application requests...
As you know data compression facility is added onto the SQL Server 2008 version, though this is not a new feature and I would call it as an enhanced feature in SQL Server. This subject of data compression has already been introduced in SQL Server 2005 version which is usage of VARDECIMAL with having...
Posted to
SQLServer-QA.net - Knowledge Sharing Network (SSQA.net)
(Weblog)
by
Anonymous
on
12-03-2007
Filed under: sql server, performance, microsoft, blogs, security, 2008, ctp, data capture, 2005, compress, data compression
Can we audit the activity inside the SQL Server 2008 to capture SELECTs activity? For the first time I though CDC will be useful to DBAs in auditing the activity on the database, but its not entirely. It is equivalent to auditing functionalities and in short CDC is more poised towards the ETL for incrementatl...
I was able to install SQL 2008 July CTP as a Virtual Image, tried to test few replication tasks to know what has been changed since last versions. At this time I would like to use the replication scripts from SQL 2000 version to see what it takes, nothing much I believe compared from 2005 to 2008. While...
SQL Server 2008 brought new feature that is Declarative Management Framework (DMgF, we cannot name it as DMF as it stands Dynamic Management Functions from SQL 2005). This is a policy based system to manage a SQL Server instance, using SSMS you can create policies to manage entities on that SQL instance...