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As a DBA you might be aware that since SQL Server 2005 database maintenace plans have given flexibility in deploying the workflow of tasks required to make sure that your database is optimized, is regularly backed up, and is free of inconsistencies in
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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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Upgrading a SQL Server database should be straight-forward, when you haven't got much of constraints on the application code. In this regard we have blogged previously such as UpgradeTags posts. Here in this post I would like to go with few FAQs that
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You may be aware default 4 SQL Server system databases master, model, msdb & tempdb are created automatically when the SQL Server is installed. Those databases files can be located under default directory assuming C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Data
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How can you calculate size of an index in a database whenever a capacity planning exercise if performed? By default the size allocated for each user objects depends on the user application and on the amount of space that is created by the application
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I found this useful blog SQL Server DTS: Dynamically Change Source and Destination in Transform Data Task that I would like to share the users that are sub-merged with DTS tasks.
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Virtual labs - in simple words its simple to use where a pre-installed environment is setup to try out /test SQL Server installation for your databses upgrade, that has full-featured labs. Not only this you have an option to download manual with a 90-minute
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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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If you have been using the database diagrams from SQL Server 2000 onwards and when it is upgraded to SQL 2005 you might get the following error: TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio ------------------------------ Database diagram support objects
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During a user group meeting one of the user asked that If we were to migrate our databases over to the evaluation edition of SQL Server 2005, is there a way of upgrading to the purchased (licensed) version (before the 180 day expires) without uninstalling
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Recently I have been stumped by not cliaming unused space correctly even though after delete handful of rows on a table. You may be aware using SP_SPACEUSED will get you details such as : Column name Data type Description database_name nvarchar(128) Name
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A new Developer within our testing environment asked me this question to see whether they can use DETACH/ATTACH method than using ALTER database method. For the user databases it is available such method of DETACH/ATTACH method when moving the databases,
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