My first article on SQL Server 2008 has been published at http://sql-server-performance.com. I wrote this article based on the tests I did regarding Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) that is newly introduced with SQL Server 2008. This articles covers;

• What is Transparent Data Encryption?
• Implementation of TDE.
• Is my database secure now, as it says?
• What needs to be considered before enabling TDE?
• What is the impact when TDE is enabled?

You can read my article at http://sql-server-performance.com/articles/dba/Transparent_Data_Encryption_p1.aspx. Please let me know you thoughts on this, you can either add a comment to the article or send me an email to dinesh@sqlserveruniverse.com. I will writing two more articles on SQL Server 2008, will be publishing at http://sqlserveruniverse.com and http://sql-server-performance.com.

Yossi Elkayam has done a nice add-in to the BIDS that allows you to save views created for SSAS and run them as new requests. Seems this is very useful if you are currently working on a SSAS project.

Read more and download from here.