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I'm not going to shoot any questions to Microsoft about RTM release for SQL Server 2008, as it was made it clear from The Data Platform Insider blog post as:   Extract: ''Over the coming months, customers and partners can look forward to significant product milestones for SQL Server.  Microsoft is excited to deliver a feature ...

If there is any performance issue within your queries then looking at query execution plan is the first step towards assessing the loss, you may be aware that execution plans of queries and queries on partitioned tables and indexes can be examined by using the TSQL SET statements such as SET SHOWPLAN_XML or SET STATISTICS XML, or by using the ...

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is a powerful tool in SQL 2005 that is re-written from previous of SQL Server, that also reduces the flaky features from Enterprise Manager. How to set the Animation Speed and make best use of SQL Server Management Studio tool? So as per the subject of the blog post it is easy to setup the speed of ...

Though it is more to do with SQL Storage  kind of question, I have just dragged into Performance tuning section for the sake of large installation you talk with clustering. For the sake of discussion it seems better to plan ahead for the failing instances since, for example, two of the four servers could go down. In the majority of cases, ...

The system DMV sys.dm_os_schedulers is an useful DMV to find such as running tasks & active workers threads etc. This is required to monitor the system state is heavily loaded or not, in particular this view will help you identify if there is any CPU bottleneck in the SQL Server machine. SELECT ...

Coming to the basics of Transactional Replication, that starts with a simple snapshot of publication database data. Similar to the name the process is carried upon the fashion of transactions and subsequent data changes and schema modifications made at the Publisher are usually delivered to the Subscriber as they occur (in near real ...

What advantages we took when deployed the 64-bit computing within SQL Server As you aware 64 bit computing with 64-bit processors have become the standard for systems ranging from the most scalable servers to desktop PCs. The way to take full advantage of these systems is with 64-bit editions of Microsoft Windows products.  Same way SQL ...

Error: An error has occured while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005,this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections.(provider:Named Pipes Provider,error:40-Could not open connection to SQL Server)) You might have seen the above error very ...

Performance is most required achievement in a multi-user environment, using SQL Server 2005 this can be achieved with a few statments execution. Firstly you need determine the issues by finding which query or queries are causing issues in achieving performance. Using Estimated execution plan option in Query Analyzer in SQL 2000 or Display ...

There has been many instances of requests from the Developers to recompile a set of Stored Procedures on one of the mission critical databases, due to the performance issues the relevant SPs have been fine tuned for optimum performance. In order to take advantage of that immediate changes we have had a task of recompile 150+ odd stored procedures ...