SQL Server 2008 R2 Developers Training Kit

In one of my previous posts, I have announced that Microsoft has released the next version of MS SQL Server 2008 and you can download SQL Server 2008 R2 CTP.

Now Microsoft SQL Team has released the SQL Server 2008 R2 Developers Training Kit.
I have given more details about the SQLServer 2008 Training Kit for developers like the content of the sql training kit and download link from Microsoft Downloads web portal at my recent post Download SQL Server 2008 R2 Developers Training Kit

I believe the SQL training kit will be very useful not for only new sql learners but who wants to get detailed information and wants to see demos and do hands on labs training on MS SQL Server 2008 R2 enhancements introduced to sql developers.

SQL Backup Compression Tools

With increased sizes of SQL Server databases serving as the increased amount of data collecting and processig web application, taking sql backups and storing and archiving these sql backup files is becoming more difficult each day.

SQL professionals, especially the SQL Server database administrators require to compress sql database backup files for gaining storage sizes for future use.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 has introduced the sql backup compression feature in order to solve this problem of SQL DBAs.

Of course, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 does not have the sql backup compression feature. But using third-party tools, database administrators can carry out the same solution for their SQL2005 database servers.

The two sql backup compression tools that can be used for this purpose Red-Gate SQL Backup and LiteSpeed SQL Server Backup Compression Tool.

For more information on SQL compression tools please refer to SQL Server Backup Compression Software Guide.