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Top 10 features of Microsoft SQL 2008 R2
Development
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 is the latest release of SQL Server. This article will introduce the top 10 features and benefits of SQL Server 2008 R2.
Report Builder 3.0
Report Builder 3.0 is a report authoring environment for business users who prefer to work in the Microsoft Office environment.
SQL Server 2008 R2 Datacenter
Built on SQL Server Enterprise, SQL Server 2008 R2 Datacenter is designed to deliver a high-performing data platform that provides the highest levels of scalability for large application workloads, virtualization and consolidation, and management for an organization’s database infrastructure. Datacenter helps enable organizations to cost effectively scale their mission-critical environment.
SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse (previously code named project "Madison") is a highly scalable appliance that delivers performance at low cost through a massively parallel processing (MPP).
StreamInsight
Data volumes are exploding with event data streaming from sources such as RFID, sensors and web logs across industries including manufacturing, financial services and utilities. The size and frequency of the data make it challenging to store for data mining and analysis. The ability to monitor, analyze and act on the data in motion provides significant opportunity to make more informed business decisions in near real-time.
Master Data Services
Master Data Services helps enterprises standardize the data people rely on to make critical business decisions. With Master Data Services, IT organizations can centrally manage critical data assets companywide and across diverse systems, enable more people to securely manage master data directly, and ensure the integrity of information over time.
PowerPivot for SharePoint
Microsoft SQL Server PowerPivot for SharePoint extends SharePoint 2010 and Excel Services to add server-side processing, collaboration, and document management support for the PowerPivot workbooks that you publish to SharePoint.
Data-Tier Application
A new single unit of deployment, Data-tier Application, packages database schema (database, tables, stored procedures, etc) with deployment requirements and can be extracted from existing applications or created in Microsoft Visual Studio®—accelerating deployments and upgrades.
Unicode Compression
Unicode compression in SQL Server 2008 R2 uses an implementation of the Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode (SCSU) algorithm to compress Unicode values that are stored in row or page compressed objects. For these compressed objects, Unicode compression is automatic for nchar(n) and nvarchar(n) columns. The SQL Server Database Engine stores Unicode data as 2 bytes, regardless of locale. This is known as UCS-2 encoding. For some locales, the implementation of SCSU compression in SQL Server 2008 R2 can save up to 50 percent in storage space.
SQL Server Utility
SQL Server customers have a requirement to manage their SQL Server environment as a whole, addressed in this release through the concept of application and multiserver management in the SQL Server Utility.
Multi Server Dashboards
Investments in application and multi-server management will help organizations proactively manage database environments efficiently at scale through centralized visibility into resource utilization and streamlined consolidation and upgrade initiatives across the application lifecycle—all with tools that make it fast and easy.
Read more on: http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3857466/Top-10-Features-of-SQL-2008-R2.htm
Read more on: http://cio.nl/internationaal-nieuws/20712/review-microsoft-sql-server-2008-r2.html
Internet Explorer 9 Beta Pros and Cons
Windows
Here are six things about the latest Microsoft Web browser we really like. And six which we think could use some more work before IE9 sees a final release.
Six things we like...
1. Yep,it's really fast
The overall Web experience with IE9 definitely feels "snappier" than previous versions of IE.
2. Sharper looking font
IE9 features a new font set that makes small text easier to read.
3. Web address + search bar = convenience
The URL address box pulls double duty as an Internet search box. Type in a word or phrase, and you'll be presented with icons representing the search engines you have selected to be used directly within IE9.
4. Tear-out tabs
A feature popularized by Chrome, IE9 lets you tear out tabs: you click on a tab, drag it outside the main browser window, let go, and the tab sprouts into a separate running instance of the Web browser.
5. Add-on alerting
If your installation of IE9 appears to be bogged down with too many or malicious add-ons, the browser will alert you of this upon start up. It will list the add-ons that have been installed, and let you choose which ones you want to shut down or allow to continue running.
6. Pin-able links
On Windows 7, you can pin links onto the operating system's taskbar, turning them into icons that open the page when clicked. Essentially, this function -- similar to one found in Chrome -- turns a site into a "virtual application."
Six things about IE9 that could use some work...
1. Crowded user interface
To be sure, there is much more screen real estate devoted to displaying a Web page. But this is simply the way IE9 looks under its default setting.
The problem is the combined URL address/tabs bar. Both functions share the same bar.
2. Wonky color coding
We found the color labeling of tabs to be enigmatic. When we had multiple tabs open, they would sometimes become colored differently, such as light blue, green, violet or yellow, along with shifting gradients of these hues. Even when the pages were fully loaded, these colors remained. What do they represent? Their purpose is not obviously presented, and we shouldn't have to look this information up.
3. The new "dialer" page
IE9 includes a "dialer" page, an idea popularized with Opera. Every blank tab you open shows thumbnails of the 10 sites IE9 deems you tend to visit most. Clicking a thumbnail opens a new tab connecting you to that site.
4. The new download manager
Although it's clearly an improvement over what's found in previous versions of IE, this new manager doesn't seem to track some file types downloaded with it (particularly, image files).
5. No improvement in editing bookmarks
Putting it bluntly, editing your list of Favorites (i.e. bookmarks) still stinks in IE9 beta. No improvement has been implemented for the way your Favorites list is managed (i.e. renaming, deleting, moving, etc.) in IE9 beta. To be fair, none of the other major browsers present managing your bookmarks in a good way.
6. No XP for you!
Like all the other cool new toys that Microsoft will soon be releasing, IE9 will not be available for Windows XP.
So for you XP hold-outs, IE8 will be the last browser you ever get from Microsoft.
Read more from: http://www.pcworld.com/article/206371-2/6_internet_explorer_9_beta_pros_and_cons.html
Microsoft blundert met gephotoshopte kleurling
News
AMSTERDAM – Microsoft is ernstig in verlegenheid gebracht door een reclamecampagne waarbij speciaal voor Polen een zwarte man werd vervangen door een blanke man. Met Photoshop.
In een campagne voor zakelijke software voor de Amerikaanse markt figureren drie mensen: een Aziatische man, een zwarte man en een blanke vrouw.
Voor de Poolse markt werd de zwarte man echter blijkbaar niet geschikt geacht. Hiervoor in de plaats werd een blanke man gezet. Opvallend detail: het creatieve team vergat de donkere hand van de oorspronkelijke man ook te photoshoppen.
Inmiddels heeft Microsoft na de ontstane ophef de oorspronkelijke foto op de Poolse site weer geplaatst. Tegenover technieuwssie Cnet verklaart Microsoft dat er nog gekeken wordt hoe dit heeft gebeuren. Ook maakt de softwaremaker excuses via Twitter.
Reiswebsite beschuldigt Microsoft van jatwerk
News
Microsoft heeft het reisgedeelte van zijn nieuwe zoekmachine Bing schaamteloos gekopieerd van een concurrent. Dat beweert het vermeende slachtoffer Kayak.com.
Kayak is een website waar gebruikers tarieven voor vluchten kunnen vergelijken en vliegreizen kunnen boeken. Microsoft integreerde diezelfde functionaliteit in zijn nieuwe zoekmachine Bing, die eerder deze maand werd gelanceerd als opvolger van Live Search.
Schuiven
De pagina's met zoekresultaten zien er op beide sites vrijwel hetzelfde uit. Net als Kayak heeft Bing Travel een smalle, grijze linkerkolom waar met schuiven de gewenste vertrektijden en de maximumprijs van de gevonden tickets kunnen worden ingesteld.
About me
Application & Web Developer
at The Cre8ion.Lab
Application Developer, Database Administrator, and Project Manager in a wide variety of business applications. Particularly interested in client/server and relational database design using MS-SQL Server. Always interested in migration projects, as well as close interaction with the .NET and DB manufacturers.
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Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2008 & 2010, Macromedia Flash (8.0, CS3, AS2, AS3) en Dreamweaver, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005 & 2008, MySQL Server, Microsoft IIS WebServer 5, 6 en 7, Apache Webserver, Microsoft Commerce Server 2000, HTML, dHTML, XHTML, CSS, W3C, Javascript, ASP, VBscript, ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#.NET, basis PHP, XML, jQuery + Plugins, Diverse Frameworks & Content Management Systemen, TCP/IP, DHCP, LAN, WAN, WLAN, Microsoft .NET Micro Framework 4.1.
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