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Tips from the Field: Performance Dos and Don’ts
Can a SAN actually cause performance problems? Sure, says Solid Quality Mentors' Kevin Boles, a SQL Server MVP and performance-tuning expert. Kevin has seen it all when it comes to performance messes. Here, he outlines the most common mistakes cus ...
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Sneak Peak: Joins Excerpt from Microsoft SQL Server 2008 T-SQL Fundamentals
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 T-SQL Fundamentals-the new book from Solid Quality Mentors' Itzik Ben-Gan-walks you through your first steps in T-SQL, the Microsoft SQL Server dialect of the standard ANSI-SQL language. You'll learn the theory behind T-S ...
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Sony Roundhill: PerformancePoint Enables Agility
Solid Quality Mentors’ Sony Jose Roundhill has been working with SQL Server database technology since 1998 and with SQL Server OLAP solutions since 2000. An accomplished data warehouse, ETL, and OLAP architect, he has several successful SQL Server data ...
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Meet One-on-One with Your Favorite Mentor at PASS!
Just give us a call to set up a private 10-minute session with one of our Mentors at the PASS Community Summit 2008 in Seattle, Nov. 18-21. Mentors including Itzik Ben-Gan, Peter DeBetta, Randy Dyess, Andrew Kelly, Haidong Ji, Greg Low, Rushabh Mehta, Jess ...
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Pre-Order Your Copy of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 T-SQL Fundamentals
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 T-SQL Fundamentals-the latest book from Solid Quality Mentors' Itzik Ben-Gan-is due out within the next month. This essential reference from Microsoft Press walks you through your first steps in T-SQL, the Microsoft SQL S ...
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Performance Tuning & Optimization Service Offerings: Get the Biggest Bang for Your Buck
Solid Quality Mentors has added a full slate of SQL Server 2008 business intelligence (BI) courses to its offerings for public and private training, providing the latest information and best practices for the new release of SQL Server:
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New White Paper Describes ETL Best Practices
To implement successful OLAP and reporting solutions, it is crucial to have a solid extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) process. The ETL process extracts data from one or many sourc ...
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Mentors Speaking at SQL Server 2008 Roadshow
Solid Quality Mentors' Douglas McDowell and Kevin Boles will be speaking at the upcoming Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Roadshow events in Philadelphia (November 12) and Atlanta (November 13), respectively. The Roadshow brings half-day training to cities across ...
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Don’t Leave Your Desk: Visit Solid Quality Mentors at SSWUG.org SQL Server Virtual Conference
Solid Quality Mentors is exhibiting at the 3rd annual SSWUG.org SQL Server Virtual Conference, November 5-7. The conference is designed to bring useful technical sessions to your desktop along with the ability to interact with speakers and exhibitors in ...
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Craig Utley: Been There, Photographed That
When it comes to business intelligence, there's little that Craig Utley hasn't seen. Craig, a Mentor and senior architect with Solid Quality Mentors, has been working with Microsoft database technologies since 1993 and with Microsoft development tools sinc ...
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Solid Quality Mentors, NEC Partnership Brings Mainframe-Class Capabilities to SQL Server Data Center
Solid Quality Mentors and NEC Corporation of America are working together to deliver the industry's first dynamic scale-up or scale-out solution for Microsoft SQL Server environments. The integrated solution offers new server-consolidation oppor ...
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Head Off Catastrophic System Issues with New SQL Server Performance Tuning & Optimization Service Offering
- Identify and resolve bottlenecks or other performance-related issues before they become serious problems.
- Avoid unnecessary spending by properly identifying the source of issues and the optimal configuration ...
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New White Paper: Using SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services to Meet Your Reporting Needs
SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), Microsoft's reporting platform, is designed to serve as the foundation on which you can build robust, enterprise-wide, extensible reporting solutions. Although only a couple of years old, SSRS is an ambitious, modern, ...
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Join Solid Quality Mentors at the Microsoft BI Conference and PASS!
- Utley and Veerman Speaking at Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference 2008
Don't miss sessions by Solid Quality Mentors' Craig Utley and Erik Veerman at the 2nd annual Microsoft Bu ...
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Get to Know Solid Quality Mentors’ “Girl Geek,” Jessica Moss
Jessica Moss is a business intelligence (BI) Mentor with Solid Quality Mentors, an MCDBA, and an MCTS: SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence. She began her career as a software developer but quickly found she enjoyed working with databases.& ...
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“Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 End-to-End” Coming to Sacramento and Minneapolis
Solid Quality Mentors' Tim Peterson is bringing the intensive five-day course "Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 End-to-End" to Sacramento, Calif., and Minneapolis in October, giving attendees the technical skills required to design, ...
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Solid Quality Mentors and Quest Software Join Forces to Contribute to SQL Server Community
Solid Quality Mentors and enterprise systems management vendor Quest Software have announced a new partnership aimed at boosting community outreach, collaborating on tool development, and providing professional services.
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