OK, so it’s one week to Christmas and I have to resort to a holiday theme of some sort. Things are a bit laid back this year. Our family has resorted to the Secret Santa thing to reduce the number of ...

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SQL Server One of the great new features of SQL Server 2008 is data compression which actually reduces storage and speeds up access due to less IO – a surprising combination. Normally compression ...

Data Compression, PowerShell integration, and Policy-Based Management, not to mention Server Groups, should make a big splash in almost any environment. Just keep in mind that the benefits you get ...

As a whole, the new features of eXtremeDB Financial Edition 6.0 are designed to increase the reliability and performance of the database, without impacting its cost effectiveness, which is the driving ...