SQL Server 2008 Installation Strategies and Best Practices Part 2 of 5 Greetings, last week I initiated this blog series which focuses on best practices and installation strategies when deploying SQL ...

Recently organizations, fellow SQL Server MVPs and DBAs have asked me for resources on how to install a SQL Server 2008 Failover Cluster from both a SQL Server and a Windows Server 2008 perspective.

Ok, by now my first upgrade experience with Katmai is well-documented. So I thought I’d pass along some of my other experiences and some of the things I’ve learned. My Vista upgrade: I have a copy of ...

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The Microsoft OLE DB Provider is an SQL tool that enables developers to write code that provides an application with ADO access to an SQL database. The OLE DB Provider is not installed by default when ...

When trying to install SolidWorks on a Windows computer, you may encounter an issue when the installation is trying to install Microsoft SQL Server. So, the installation works fine until it reaches ...

Sometimes, life really is like a box of chocolates. The same can also be said for software upgrades. Take, for instance, Visual Studio 2008. After all its various CTPs and RTMs, I feel like I've been ...

SQL Server Management Studio or SSMS allows you to connect to the SQL server and execute queries. In this tutorial, we will see how you can install and configure SQL Server Management Studio in ...

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