Tag: <span>sql server</span>

Where in the world is SQL Server 2008?

We publish datasets and documents that are specific to certain geographic areas of Alberta. The public comes to our website and wants to find all information that pertains to a town, city or area. We currently use Oracle Spatial to calculate where our publications are geographically, but with the move off of Oracle, we need a new method.

Discovering aliases and synonyms

My Oracle to SQL Server 2008 migration is going well and is close to wrapping up. In an effort to make the transition as seamless as possible for the users, I wondered what kind of options were available to me to reuse the known name of the Oracle server, once it’s been taken offline. There has already been a DNS alias set up to obscure the actual name of the SQL Server, but the instance name still has to be added. Our SQL Servers are all named instances; can I refer to a named instance as DBPROD instead of PRDDB\PRD1?