Some members of the SQL CAT Team just released an Operations Guide for SQL 2008 R2 Analysis Services that can be found here. While I am not a SSAS person by any means this looks pretty cool and worth while for anyone who does work with it so have a look. Andrew J. Kelly

  The System Center Advisor team (formally Project Atlanta) now lists some pre-release documentation on exactly what information they collect and how you can view it before it gets uploaded. So if you are wondering what they collect you can have a look at the downloadable spreadsheet and see for yourself. Obviously this may change as it is ...

  Brad Anderson just completed a keynote in Las Vegas at the Microsoft Management Summit 2011 and announced the new name for what was originally called Project Atlanta. Dot da da dah… And the new name is:  System Center Advisor.  You can find much more information at www.SystemCenterAdvisor.com.  The product also goes from a ...

There have been a few releases over the last few days for some SQL Server 2008 tools that you may be interested in. The first one is the 2008 R2 Best Practices Analyzer found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlreleaseservices/archive/2010/06/19/sql-server-2008-r2-best-practices-analyzer-is-now-available.aspx And the second one is the 2008 R2 ...

       One of the most common trends that I see related to performance & scalability with SQL Server is a poorly configured or implemented storage subsystem. There is a ton of information out there on this subject but in my opinion that is part of the problem.  Too much data is not always a good thing and there ...