Last week at TechEd Developers, I gave a talk on PowerShell and SQL Server. I mentioned some upcoming changes in RC0, and have just had a chance to check them out. The PowerShell provider for SQL Server has been expanded to handle not only a "SQL" subdirectory (which enumerates database objects) and "SQLPolicy" (which enumerates […]
Bob Beauchemin
SQL Server Blog
Changes to the SQL Server PowerShell provider in RC0
Posted on: June 9, 2008 9:59 pm
Don’t just read the Readme, read the Release Notes too
Posted on: June 9, 2008 9:20 pm
SQL Server 2008 RC0 comes with a Readme file and a Release Notes file. It’s always good to read both. In this RC, the readme file contains information on installation and upgrade, and the Release Notes file contains information about things that have changed from previous releases. In RC0, they’ve changed the syntax/format of a […]
Performance features in SQL Server 2008 RC0 – Hashes for queries and query plans
Posted on: June 9, 2008 9:02 pm
There's a newer version of SQL Server 2008 (Release Candidate 0) available on MSDN and Technet. Another performance-related feature (actually its additional information) allows you to have better visibility into performance-affecting queries. This information is available as columns query_hash and query_plan_hash in the sys.dm_exec_query_stats and sys.dm_exec_requests DMV. There's a really nice illustrative example in Books […]
Performance features in SQL Server 2008 RC0 – Optimize for Adhoc Workloads
Posted on: June 9, 2008 8:40 pm
There's a newer version of SQL Server 2008 (Release Candidate 0) available on MSDN and Technet. There's a couple of features that show up in RC0 that are performance related. One is a server setting 'optimize for ad hoc workloads'. This one tells SQL Server to save a "compiled plan stub" in the query cache […]
