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I've had one or two requests recently to set up the Performance Dashboard reports on SQL Server so I've created this blog post to step through the process. Firstly, the Performance Dashboard was created to allow customers and support engineers to monitor the general performance characteristics of a server and investigate the cause of any ...

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 24/7 kind of application. During the troubleshooting exercise I have noticed a peculiar issue ...

The following pages were recently modified. Source: Knowledge BaseProduct: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition & SQL Server 2005 Standard EditionNotification Contents: New and Major Modifications A query that references a nondeterministic user-defined function may run slower in SQL Server 2005 than in SQL Server ...

First part of question is a pure newbie FAQ to know about, and the simple answer would be it is one of the Clustering type you can adopt within your SQL Server environment. To cover on newbie aspect both Active/Passive & Active/Active configuration is available within SQL Server, both operating system & SQL engine work together to ...

Have you seen the above message within the SQL Server error logs? If not then no need to worry and make sure to continue your performance monitoring tasks. So when to be concerned! It is evident that SQL Server 2005 component handles memory differently as compared to SQL Server 2000 version. As one of the KBA refers SQL Server 2000 ...

As blogged here before Virtual Labs are very handy for the new users and existing professionals to test out new features without disturbing their own platform. In this scenario Microsoft events are helping the users by providing access to their virtual platform for BI & Relational Databases that are built in latest operating system with new ...

How many SQL Server licenses you need to fix the number of CPUs on the server? The answer it depends on the number! Well having hyper-threading (i.e. multiple threads execute on a single physical CPU appearing as 2 logical CPUs) and dual-core technology (i.e. a single CPU socket that has more than 1 core appearing as multiple logical CPUs) is a ...

If it is a first time you are deploying the SQL Server 2005 on a SAN, then there are few things you need to be considered that will be raised by installations that are either deploying SQL Server for the first time or are upgrading to SAN from direct attach storage.   The important factors such as virtualization of physical disks, RAID ...

I was going through Books Online in learning the concepts of slicing of data within Analysis Services for the new project that is upcoming, all these years I have basic knowledge of SSAS and with latest available features in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services there is more to learn from there. Slicing is the one that is most useful when you ...

As you know data compression facility is added onto the SQL Server 2008 version, though this is not a new feature and I would call it as an enhanced feature in SQL Server. This subject of data compression has already been introduced in SQL Server 2005 version which is usage of VARDECIMAL with having table-level ...