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by Tim DiChiara, Senior Site Editor
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At Oracle's love fest OracleWorld two months ago, two words were uttered in equal proportions: "the" and "grid." Thankfully, at last week's Professional Association for SQL Server show in Seattle, grid computing hype was nowhere in sight. Instead, "Yukon," the next-generation SQL Server, was the toast of the party.
At the PASS show, speakers gave several thousand eager DBAs and developers their first glimpses of what's in store. Significant improvements in the security model, management tools, and integration with .NET were on display. One change touted by several speakers as "revolutionary" were the new business intelligence features. Amir Netz of Microsoft showed off its new architecture -- a combination of the relational (OLTP) and multidimensional (OLAP) engines into an "unified dimensional model" -- real-time analytics, a new data modeling paradigm, native web services and more. It was an impressive demonstration.
Naturally, there are nay-sayers. One Linux-oriented SearchDatabase.com member wrote: "Ho hum. Once again Microsoft comes out with a breakthrough that their competitors have had for a couple of years now. When will this proprietary company simply go away or else open itself up to using the standard techniques that everyone else is?"
What do you think? Will Yukon be a "revolution" or will Microsoft's Windows-only mantra eventually halt its growth in the enterprise? Email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with your thoughts. If you need more background before forming an opinion, more Yukon news is available here.
Until next time, Tim
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Backup and recovery
by Tim DiChiara, Senior Site Editor
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The most important function of a DBA is the backup and recovery of mission-critical data. Stay current with our storage tip collection, expert advice, and news analysis inside...
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Featured Experts Greg Robidoux and Jeremy Kadlec, Founder and Principal Database Engineer, Edgewood Solutions
Category: SQL Server
Greg Robidoux is the founder of Edgewood Solutions, a database solutions company in the United States focusing on Microsoft SQL Server and he is currently the Vice Chair of the PASS DBA SIG. Jeremy Kadlec serves as the Principal Database Engineer at Edgewood Solutions and has been building technical solutions for the last five years primarily focused on SQL Server 6.5, 7.0 and 2000. Ask them your tough SQL Server questions!
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Read Greg and Jeremy's answers to previous questions
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This Week: In the forums
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Object timestamps in DB2/400
Member "mkp" would like to include the timestamp when an object was created, last modified, and last accessed in a table but can't get it to work. Give him your advice in our "DB2 Tech Forum".
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Connection pooling advantages
Member "Daisy" is wondering if there are any other advantages to using a database connection pool besides saving the cost of opening and closing new physical connections? Go to our "DBA Water Cooler" to offer your thoughts.
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Introduction to DB2 exception handling
This chapter from the recent book "DB2 SQL Procedural Language for
Linux, UNIX, and Windows" describes the various types of DB2
condition handlers and techniques of how and when to use them.
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