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The question on the subject was asked by one of the Data Integration project developers, which is initiated to migrate a database from Oracle to SQL Server. The process of transactions should be handled from Application and when it comes to the data migration
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Just a bit of basics about DateTime datatype in SQL Server, it has two different date/time columns. They are DATETIME and SMALLDATETIME and the difference between these two SQL Server date/time data types. SQL Server has a number of default formats it
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If you work in Financial based Enterprise then Sarbanes-Oxley is not a new concept for you as per American law that regulates the accountability of publicly owned companies. Just to talk about t he main purpose of the law it to make sure the financial
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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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Virtualization and Consolidation is still a hot topic and revising SQL Server consolidation and virtualization - hot topic in the industry related post here that you can easily manage the resources by using virtual machine technology that enables multiple
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Whenever you perform a database creation, add a data or log file to database, AUTOGROW process is intiated or restore of database will trigger the file initialization if that is created afresh. In addition to this when you talk about files intialization
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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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You may be aware about using Third party tools to compare the data between 2 tables. Using SQL Server 2005 you need not entirely dependant on such requirement, TABLEDIFF utility is the new addition to the SQL Server. This utility enables you to compare
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For every new user in SQL Server world and experienced users to get used to newer version of SQL Server, having sample kit will definetly help out. In this scenario I often get emails asking about any samples or documentation (procedures) to get more
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The following error is a frequent-faced issue by any SQL Server user : SQL Server is unavailable or does not exist or SQL Server does not exist or access denied In this regard we have already relevant post PotentialCauses_Resolution here, but still I
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Usage of SQL Mail is quite common within SQL Server environment, recently I have involved at one of the client's site with the error: Msg 17930, Level 16, State 1, Line 0 xp_sendmail: Either there is no default mail client or the current mail client cannot
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Not alone with SQL Server you would be able to identify the root cause of a performance issue or to monitor any kind of activity. As you may be aware SYSMON (PERFMON) and PROFILER will help to some extent of finding offending processes on the SQL Server
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I was working with one of the user project to monitor the Performance Audit of their SQL Server estate. One SQL instance among the SQL farm is very important to their day-to-day business and cannot sustain even 5 minutes of downtime which is termed as
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We have been struggling to uninstall the Cumulative Update package 7 on a development SQL Server! As it is an important aspect of installation to rollback or to have a backout plan tested if you are performing any kind of installation against your Production
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IN continuation to the post Rollback_of_CumulativeUpdate-hotfix-ServicePack I was asked about any procedure or steps on installing Cumulative update package 7 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 on Active node SQL 2005 cluster. The simple answer is all
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