November 2007 - Posts
Since the release of SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2, Microsoft development team has released various builds that are classed as Cumulative Updates. Also we blogged on this site - CumulativeUpdate4 & http://sqlserver-qa.net/blogs/tools/archive/2007/10/16/keep-your-eyes-open-for-cumulative-update-4-for-sql-server-2005-service-pack-2.aspx
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For the first time I wasn't agreeing that AUTO STATISTICS would harm the bulk insert performance! But after an assesment of PERFMON counters during the load and after disabling until the process is finished, there was a significant performance on the
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I know it sounds easy to upgrade a SQL Server Cluster environment from 2000 to 2005 version, as easy it mentioned within the Books Online for SQL Server 2005. When I have performed for the first time, my first thought was (do we need that or take out
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One of the user has been confused to see lot of .TUF file within their server where the log shipping is enabled. Basically this .tuf file is the T ransaction U ndo F ile, which is created when performing log shipping to a server in Standby mode. So if
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Do you have any criteria for your Development Environment within the SQL Server platform? Do you perform end-to-end testing whenever a new hotfix or service pack needs to be applied on the SQL Server? So think about having seperate Database Development
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A specific task of importing data from a text file or any data source where heave inserts and updates are involved is quite common scenario in any SQL Server platform. So when you need to perform such actions on regular basis you need what's the best
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Imagine a simple installation of SQL Server Express 2005 edition fails with an error "SQL Server service failed to start?" Whether it may be on a X64 based operating system or on a simple desktop with XP PRO, as usual you would go with default install
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Say you are executing a scheduled job using a batch file and output is stored to a file, then in that output file you will see Warning messages such as SQLSTATE. So how to suppress these messages on the output file. Simply using -i option in SQLCMD as
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Still most of the users in SQL Server 2005 are afraid of using SSIS - SQL Server Integration Services for their ETL process and procedures. I would say the newbie users are in luck to obtain help easily on the web by referring to the blogs and forums/newsgroups
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By default SQL Server automatically creates the internal tables for Full-text search, XML indexes and Service broker. These are also created when a user query is written poorly that uses tempdb heavily. At they are called internal tables but do not contain
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Whenever a service pack is released it will be available for 32-bit and 64-bit that also includes for SQL Express 2005 edition too, as it was for MSDE earlier. Since last year (I think) Microsoft Development team has adopted a standard in naming schema
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