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What will be the main challenge for a DBA/User to manage a large Data Warehouse (DW) environment, size does matter and also think about downtime you need to deploy whenever any patches are required. Before that you need to be perfect or well-versed with Data partitioning & Data lifecycle within that DW environment.  Also buidling up ...

The message on subject is self-explanatory where your disk subsystem is referring to SQL Server that it is unable to cope up the demand.   Having AUTOGROW option enabled on a SQL Server database is a common setup that allows SQL Server automatically expands the database when additional space is required. Internally within ...

Performance - one word does it all!  You are aware that during the Performance Tuning exercise there are few quick wins within the SQL Server Relational Database Engine such as table statistics for data and indexes. When it comes to Analysis Services (BI) database then no difference as one of the greatest enhancements in Analysis ...

How do you define the terms ''Performance Monitoring''? What is your baseline & benchmarks? Have you ever used PERFMON (SYSMON) & PROFILER for serious performance issues within your SQL Server environment? The answer may be not 'yes' for all the questions above, in general getting know more about performance monitoring methods is not ...

What kind of database maintenance operations you should be doing when you are DBA? You should have better understanding on the terms in managing the Database platform at your end, without proper information it is very hard to say you are managing your platform effectively. Think about DBCC checks, backups and database maintenance tasks and list ...

As a DBA you should now how locking works with tables and how best you can make use of indexing enhancements within SQL Server 2005 version.   Until SQL 2000 there was a limited availability of documentation on the guidelines even in the Books online and most of the times we have to depend upon the web resources or ...

Here comes another Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) on the forums and Frequently Posted Blog (FPB) here about high cpu issues on the SQL Server 2000 instances. Looking at high cpu spiks and performace issues is a common problem in all SQL Server installations, handling this issue within SQL Server 2005 is not a problem as there are DMVs to extend ...

  Since the inception of SQL Server 2005 data encryption and cryptography functionality has elevated to a new level, this wasn't the case until SQL 2000 version.   The overall security improvements within SQL 2005 is mainly with 'certficate' authentication, the 3 levels are: Authentication – subjects (persons, devices, ...

Though the message specifies as an informational message only and no user action is required, you should take some action to avoid current behaviour of databases within your environment. Also check whether you have enabled the AUTO_CLOSE property for any of the databases on that SQL Server instance, on the down side it is not ...

No doubt that as compare to previous version the current SQL Server 2005 provides more new language constructs and primitives for the T-SQL language than can be utilized. Still there are many out there not entirely ready to upgrade from SQL Server 2000 to 2005. In this case you can take few advantages of SQL 2005 by keeping the user databases in ...