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.
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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.
Automatically leverage parallel processing when joining dimensions to the fact table. Each outer row gets a separate thread on a nested…
What can I do if I am using SQL Server 2000 or 2005, and I want to do a more efficient join between a date dimension and a large fact table?
Eric Hanson, principal program manager for SQL Server data warehousing, walks through creation of a workaround.
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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. Video 4 is on accelerating backups with easy Backup Compression.
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