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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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When do you need data partitioning? The data you see in relational database may need such a strategy if the volume is huge, for instance the data to store event-log information having the schema such as: [Id] INT (make this primary key clustered), [Unit_Id]
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Until last month I was not aware about Volume Shadow Copy and what is the relation between that service & SQL Server services, so here I would like to give the information in this regard that will discuss SQL Server connection issues that you may
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Here is another common error you will get to see with Database Maintenance plan in SQL Server 2005, though most of it has been resolved with Service Pack 2 and hotfix but still you need to take care few things. Error: Value of 'DD/MM/YYYYHH:MM:SS' is
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If you take into account of most Frequently Asked Questions in any SQL community forums, you will get to see problems against database maintenance plans by the users. Personally I don't like them to use (by default) and professionally always depend (suggest)
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Do you know you can try restore a corrupted database backup using simple clause within RESTORE statement. You may be aware that SQL 2005 version can perform an optional computation a backup checksum on the backup stream; if page-checksum or torn-page
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Snapshot backups are introduced in SQL Server 2005 version that uses: The underlying backup technology creates an instantaneous copy of the data that is being backed up. The instantaneous copying is typically accomplished by splitting a mirrored set of
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One of my Dev. DBA asked me this question about whether we need to use NOINIT or INIT for a differential backup schedule. Think about availability option in this case, you can overwrite the existing differential backup using INIT clause but when it comes
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