An opportunity to speak with Sabrena McBride, Senior Product Manager for SQL Server, provided a lot of insight into what's new in R2. Some of the highlights: Among other things, SQL Server 2008 R2 is ...

I would like the user to be able to click a button on the web page that will run a SQL query (canned report) and export the result data to an Excel spreadsheet. The data does not need to display on ...

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The Data Collector in SQL Server 2008 produces a Management Data Warehouse (MDW) containing performance metrics that can be analyzed as a whole, or drilled down to uncover specific performance issues.