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With reference to the subject line: [UK Government Helps You] as stated its a SPAM email that you might get in this Credit Crunch season that SPAMMERs are targeting the vulnerable users to obtain their personal details. Here I would like to present the email that you may get:     ----- Original Message ----- From: Uk Government ...

Its the last day of SQLPASS Summit 2008 and in few hours time I will be presenting my talk (first time in US SQLPASS) on ''Effective Usage of SQL Server 2005 Database Mirroring, what's new in SQL 2008'' topic which is an enhanced version of what I have presented before in SQLBIts UK during September 2007. Just a highlights on the ...

In continuation to SQL Server - Precision Performance techniques using RML Utilities and SQL Server troubleshooting tools PSSDiag, SQLDiag, SQLNexus, RML Utilities and ReadTrace: which one to choose? posts here it will be a wonderful news for DBAs to hear that Microsoft Development team developed an update for the RML Utilities which now ...

When the SQL Server is faced to the internet then you have to take utmost care to ensure that the each row in the table is not compromised to avoid any unprecedented activity. As it is getting popular that rise in SQL injection attacks has reminded the best practices and rules to secure the database & web environment to avoid any escalation ...

Few months ago I had an excellent opportunity to learn and share the knowledge within SQL Server performance tuning, Tech-Ed Online talks [remember Tech-ed Online Panel: Leveraging ... ]. Same in the series Amit Bansal, SQL Server MVP from India and myself had a brief chalk-talk online session on query tuning techniques and also brief tips ...

I have been thiking to write this topic in this blog since last 3 months, before that I have done fair amount of work to get you sensible & helpful resource in securing your SQL Server environment.  This was the question asked by one of the user when there was a discussion about securing the SQL Server code. The obvious answer is yes ...

Recently we had a discussion at work place about setting up the PAGE_VERIFY option to CHECKSUM for few databases on one of the SQL Server 2005 instance (dedicated) that is being used extensively by an application that has very limited maintenance window in terms of 24/7 usage. By default you can enable of disable this PAGE_VERIFY option by ...

TechNet Webcast: SQL Server 2008 (Part 3 of 3): Integrate Growing Data Volumes (Level 300)  Attend this session to learn how to integrate growing volumes of data with the new enhancements in Microsoft SQL Server 2008. We cover new technologies, like Change Data Capture and MERGE SQL statement, in addition to scalability improvements in SQL ...

Here is the list of information which is a Technical Rollup email we receive from TRM team. The list is ongoing and I have outlined the important ones that I feel and fits for 'generic' SQL Server environment. Make sure to review, download, test and apply to your production environment.  SQL Server 2008 Report Builder 2.0 ...

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 ...