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SQL Server Reporting Services has been introduced in 2000 version but not catched within the user environment until the Reporting Services 2005 has been rolled out. In this regard administering a Reporting Services installation requires that you know how to perform routine maintenance tasks for server components, and how to manage the content and ...

The following pages were recently modified. Source: Knowledge BaseProduct: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition, SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition & SQL Server 2005 Enterprise X64 EditionNotification Contents: New SQL Server 2005 installers do not update an instance of the SQL Server service that is in a disabled ...

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 ...

Locking is a mechanism used by the Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine to synchronize access by multiple users to the same piece of data at the same time. Before a transaction acquires a dependency on the current state of a piece of data, such as by reading or modifying the data, it must protect itself from the effects of another transaction ...

SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition introduced support for the use of Windows 2000 Address Windowing Extensions (AWE) to address 8GB of memory on Windows 2000 Advanced Server and 32GB of memory on Windows 2000 Datacentre. With AWE, SQL Server can reserve memory not in use by other applications and the OS. Each instance must statically allocate ...

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 ...

I am using ssma to migrate db from oracle 9i to sql server 2000. I successfully migrated oracle tables,views,procedures,functions etc.. But can you please help me on how to migrate packages,triggers and indexes? Here i can able to view the headings like''Triggers'', ''packages'', ''Indexes'' in SSMA. But none of my oracle objects are displaying ...

The subject say it all, as of today the mainstream support for SQL Server 2000 (SP4) and SQL Server 2005 (SP1) will be ended. That means for SQL Server 2005 service pack 1 there will not be any support and that can be obtained with a Custom Support agreement where few applications may have issues in upgrading to Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2005, ...

DMV - has got very special place for DBAs since the inception of SQL Server 2005. In this case one of the thme is very important to find out the index statistics within your database, such as sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats statement. Recently one of the user complained about running DMVs on a specific SQL Server instance where the error was ...

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 ...