SQLCAT.com - The "Level 500" SQL Server Resource

SQLCAT.com

I heard about the SQLCAT site yesterday on the recent TechNet Radio cast, A look inside SQLCAT (Customer Advisory Team), and thought it sounded pretty cool (and since it's not "officially" announced yet, it's kind of, sort of, a scoop.  ;)

SQLCAT.com was described as a "Level 500" resource, a site for highly technical and detailed SQL Server content. As a way for the SQL Customer Advisory Team to share the knowledge they gain with clients and ISV's as they push SQL Server to its limits (and beyond).

Here's the current Recently Posted list;

• Compress Many-to-Many C# Utility
• Create a Processing Log Script Project
• SQL Server Analysis Services Performance Monitoring and Visualization Methodology
• Powershell Scripts for SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services DMVs
• Including Child Members Multiple Places in a Parent-Child Hierarchy
• Analysis Services Synchronization Best Practices
• How many files should a database have? - Part 1: OLAP workloads

The site also hosts "Deep level technical whitepapers on specific SQL Server best practices" in the Whitepapers section.

The current top three are;

• Database Snapshot Performance Considerations under I/O-Intensive Workloads
• Best Practices for Migrating Non-Unicode Data Types to Unicode
• Database Mirroring and Log Shipping Working Together

 

And of course, there's a full post web feed to help you keep up with new stuff as it's added.