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The Exception Handling Application Block (EHAB) helps developers create a consistent strategy for processing exceptions. Now it can be used in Silverlight applications. The centralized exception management functionality is configured as a set of poicies that can be defined in an external…

Eric Hanson, principal program manager for SQL Server data warehousing, walks through several of the key features and functions of SQL Server 2008. Get more performance out of your star schema data model. Automatic star join query optimization dramatically improves performance by efficiently…

Eric Hanson, principal program manager for SQL Server data warehousing, walks through several of the key data warehousing features and functions of SQL Server.    In this screencast, Eric uses a typical DW query along with Microsoft Excel to create reports.   If you're having…

This is a demo of the basic validation scenarios using Enterprise Library 5.0 Silverlight Integration Pack, including:   Validation using attributes Injecting validation rules based on configuration Cross-field validation via self-validation Support for implementing IDataErrorInfo Source…

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow. In this episode, we are very sad to bid Steve Marx farewell as he looks for new challenges outside of Microsoft. Fortunately, we're able to…

Eric Hanson, principal program manager for SQL Server data warehousing, walks through several of the key features and functions of SQL Server 2008. Video 2 is on configuring TempDB for data warehousing. If you're having difficulty reading the scripts, please select a higher-res format for…

Eric Hanson, principal program manager for SQL Server data warehousing, walks through several of the key features and functions of SQL Server 2008. Video 1 is on configuring DW storage. If you're having difficulty reading the scripts, please select a higher-res format for viewing.

Eric Hanson, principal program manager for SQL Server data warehousing, walks through several of the key features and functions of SQL Server 2008.  Speed up query performance on very large fact tables. Partitioning and indexing now complement each other. If you're having difficulty…

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Eric Hanson, principal program manager for SQL Server data warehousing, walks through several of the key features and functions of SQL Server 2008.   Make the most of your available hardware resources through intelligent parallel processing against partitioned tables. SQL…