SQLAuthority News – Office 2010 Readiness Check – Are you ready for Office 2010?

PowerPivot for Excel is a data analysis tool that delivers unmatched computational power directly within the application users already know and love—Microsoft Excel. Office 2010 is the next version of Office 2010. We all know Office 2010 is on the verge of getting released and the reviews available online say…
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SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Modeling CTP – Nov 2009 Release 2 (formerly Oslo)

Note : Download SQL Server Modeling CTP – Nov 2009 Release 2 (formerly Oslo)  by Microsoft SQL Server Modeling (formerly code name “Oslo”) is a set of future technologies that provide significant productivity gains across the lifecycle of .NET applications by enabling developers, architects, and IT professionals to work together…
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SQLAuthority News – Excellent Event – TechEd Sri Lanka – Feb 8, 2010

TechEd Sri Lanka was held at Waters Edge, Colombo between Feb 8 and Feb 10, 2010. It was one of the largest successful technical event in Sri Lanka. I was extremely surprised to how technically sound this event was and how excited the TechEd attendees were. I presented there on…
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SQL SERVER – Data and Page Compressions – Data Storage and IO Improvement

The performance of SQL Server is primarily decided by the disk I/O efficiency. Improving I/O definitely improves the performance. SQL Server 2008 introduced Data and Backup compression features to improve the disk I/O. Here, I will explain Data compression. Data compression implies the reduction in the disk space reserved by…
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SQLAuthority News – Hyderabad Techies February Fever Feb 11, 2010 – Indexing for Performance

I recently presented in Hyderabad User Group on the subject of The Other Side of SQL Server Index: Advanced Solutions to Ancient Problem , you can read more about this event here SQLAuthority News – MUGH – Microsoft User Group Hyderabad – Feb 2, 2010 Session Review. I really had…
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