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Recently we had a discussion at work place about setting up the PAGE_VERIFY option to CHECKSUM for few databases on one of the SQL Server 2005 instance (dedicated) that is being used extensively by an application that has very limited maintenance window
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I felt like somehow I missed to post the availability of Cumulative Update package releases here and referring the last CU7_Update package blogpost now we have CU8 available for download if the specified problem occurs in your platform as per the KBA
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Have you ever wondered about flushing databases? Well not quite possible to flush it straight away and not a best practice too on the live server, so what it is about and you need to know about transactions state when they occur. Say when the changes
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No doubt that the blog subject will be a most wanted requirement on their databases, that is most responsible for a SQL Server database then arguably the most critical task that you absolutely MUST get right is your database backup procedures. Where the
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Ok here is the hot news for SQL 2005 users!!! From the Are you ready for SP3 post here, it has been officially announced the SP3 for SQL Server 2005 will be available in CY2008 (calender year 2008) that means before 31st December 2008! More from this
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Here is another candidate of 7 within Cumulative Update service for SQL Server 2005 SP2. SQL Server Release Services team has announced (yesterday) that another instalment of Cumulative Update ( series here ) for SQL Server 2005 on Service Pack 2, it
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In order to keepup the database logical and physical integrity of all the objects, you must run the DBCC statement such as DBCC CHECKALLOC, DBCC CHECKTABLE and DBCC CHECKCATALOG. Overall you can do this with another statement DBCC CHECKDB that will avoid
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Interesting and usefull cross-blogs from a fellow MVP on stored-procedures, transactional replication: Parse delimited string in a Stored procedure Exporting blank SRS report to excel does not render the headers Setting up Transactional Replication from
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From the series of the SQL Server 2005 Service Pack2 Cumulative Update packages blogs and for instance we blogged about SQL2005SP2CU5 earlier, it is available to download now and before that there is a catch to obtain this package. It is not that easy
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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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If you remember we have blogged about release of Cumulative Update 4 for SQL Server Service Pack 2 since it has been declared to be available on download, CUpdate4-SQL2005SP2 is the one I'm referring. So is it is available for download (released recently),
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Say you have a serious performance problem and few times you will have assertion issue with a dump files creation, in real world say this can be matched to a airplane crash. Where you will know the sequence of events from Black-box records in the flight
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Have you ever wondered you can recover a corrupted database when you have optimum backup & restore strategy in place, well I'm not talking about usage of third party tools or use high-end hardware. With simple backup and restore features in SQL Server
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On day-to-day basis a DBA might come across with the issues on the fragmentation on the database, it may not be possible to design the database that will be totally efficient and optimum to perform without any issues. Due to the fact of data inserts,
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Well, I'm not selling any tool to fix any issues or threats you have alread in your SQL Server environment. As you may know since the fast release of SQL Server 2005 it has been utmost importance for Trustworthy computing and security on all Microsoft
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