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Ok its time to update your local copies of SQL Server 2008 Books OnLine (BOL) too, as we have RTM version in hand. You may have installed it during CTP releases and even during short-time of RC0 release, but as always it is a good practice to update as
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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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What I like within the SQL Server Reporting Services is using RDL for own formatted reports, as this gives you the complete freedom to build your own reporting designer tool, if you are not experienced in using Visual Studio based report designer or crystal
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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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As we blogged much on Books Online importance and recent changes to availablility of updated books online for SQL Server 2005 under BOL-Sep2007-MSDN-Technet the same update is available to download. Do not forget to update your local copies as it will
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Can I rename an instance of SQL Server after I have already installed it on the computer? Simple answer is Yes and you can change the name of an instance as long as the server is not clustered. There is a little catch between 2000 and 2005 version, by
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Sometime ago I have blogged about MSDN labs- SQL Server Virtual Labs - fully featured virtual environment for testing! and I recommend and encourage all of my users to use Virtual labs and webcasts - use them for a better practice on product . Similar
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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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Another common question on the forums, may be not a frequently performed task and as a DBA you should discourage in performing such actions. Microsoft SQL development team has already documented the information over the KBA 303774 and for the server name
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SQL Server version 2005 Books Online aka BOL has been updated by SQL Development Team in September 2007 and not available for download yet. As usual they are awaiting customer feedback from the BOL or via MSDN/Technet pages. Refer in their words: In the
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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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You may be aware that the native encryption is introduced in SQL Server 2005 by making use of the algorithm involves a component known as the encryption key (a sequence of characters). Using this method the process can be reversed by applying an appropriate
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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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Have you ever used the MSDN or SQL Server Books OnLine search functionality? I have used it and there are 3 types of help provided with SQL Server 2005 BOL which is a local based, Internet and Newsgroups. At the latest check out the new Books Online search
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