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SQL Server 2005 Partitioned Tables and Indexes - learning curve
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] Read More...
How long DBCC CHECKDB process runs on SQL Server instance?
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 Read More...
How SQL Server manages when a database is created in terms of I/O and disk usage?
One of the best features you have in the SQL Server is to create database data file (additional) on fly without having a slow performance affect on existing connections. But think about how SQL Server manages to use server threads for the data file that Read More...
Vote now: Index defragmentation best practices for SQL Server 2005 documentation - feedback received from Microsoft
May 25 2007- From the snippet of Tibor Karaszi , SQL Server MVP I have raised a feedback form on Connect.Microsoft website to get newer version (SQL Server 2005) about Index Defragmentation Best practices information. Vote your interest to get newer documentation Read More...
Internal Tables in SQL Server 2005, what are they for?
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 Read More...
Calculate size of an index for a new database?
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 Read More...
DBCC EXTENTINFO - unused pages in these extents (undocumented)
When it comes to resolving table fragmentation, the basic checkout you perform is to run DBCC INDEXDEFRAG or even run DBCC DBREINDEX statements. As per the default configuraiton SQL Database Engine allocates a new extent to an allocation unit only when Read More...
Msg: 2522 The index "<name>" (partition 1) on table "TableName" cannot be reorganized because page level locking is disabled.
All of sudden the re-org of an index started failing and no error was displayed within that scheduled job we execute. After executing the code from Query Editior I was able to get the message as follows: Msg 2552, Level 16, State 1, Line 3 The index "<name>" Read More...
"Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching"
I believe since Windows 2000 server days you can take advantage of Indexing Service that creates indexes of the contents and properties of all files on local and network drives in order to increase file searching speed. It's quite similar to "Find Fast" Read More...
Is it possible to estimate the space requirement for TEMPDB or factors that are affecting space?
No straight answer to say yes you need so and so value to set on TEMPDB for such space requriement. By default i t is difficult to estimate the tempdb space requirement for an application. In general and one of the best practice is to allow 20% more space Read More...
ReportServer & ReportServerTempdb databases - how to perform maintenance on these databases?
YOu may be aware that when you deploy the Reporting Services it uses two SQL Server relational databases for internal storage. By default, the databases are named ReportServer and ReportServerTempdb. They are classed as system databases for Reporting Read More...