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What are the top principles and practices for presenting content to customers via PowerPoint and in general.

Things to consider when upgrading to SQL Server 2008 from past versions.

An overview of the differences and similarities between SQL Server and Oracle database technologies. Presented by SQL Server Technical Specialists Kristeen Kohrs and Mike Wilmot. Kristeen is a former Oracle employee (over 9 years).

How to setup the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit Extender on dbspider.codeplex.com with SMO and Telerik WPF.

Soup to nuts on how to use and extend the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit. Codeplex project from dbspider.codeplex.com. Combine MAP Toolkit, Visual Studio 2008, .NET 2.0, SQL Server 2008, Telerik WPF.

What are the key concepts necessary to successfully promote your software ideas both internally and externally to your comapany? Here are some of my learnings from creating a tool that extends the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit at: dbspider.codeplex.comleveraging Visual Studio, .NET…

  Here is an overview of the SQL Server Resource Governor in slides and some demos.http://blogs.msdn.com/mwilmot/archive/2009/10/13/sql-server-resource-governor.aspxSQL Server 2008 provides Resource Governor, a feature than you can use to manage SQL Server workload and system resource…

From MSDN: The AlwaysOn Availability Groups feature is a high-availability and disaster-recovery solution that provides an enterprise-level alternative to database mirroring. Introduced in Microsoft SQL Server 2012. AlwaysOn Availability Groups maximizes the availability of a set of user databases…