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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 you must consider the hardware such as RAID, as the software data block ...

To cut the long story short, during a recent implementation of Cumulative Update 6 and 7 on a particular 'application domain' server we have had major application issues due to a mix up of application code & these SQL cumulative update fixes. Actually this server was not under our support structure that would definetly go ...

I know it sounds easy to upgrade a SQL Server Cluster environment from 2000 to 2005 version, as easy it mentioned within the Books Online for SQL Server 2005. When I have performed for the first time, my first thought was (do we need that or take out the reasons). But one thing is sure that SQL Server 2005 offers a number of ...

Interesting question: how can we know the difference between a native backup and backup taken by third party tool? Say you have started newly in a enterprise wide platform and your task is to find out what methods of BACKUP and RESTORE are followed to take care of data which is a prime task for every DBA. Usage of third party tools has been ...