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What is the most required task when a DBA required to perform upgrade from previous versions? Complete understanding of the databases that are required to upgrade. Technical reference of upgrade path from previous version to the current one. Testing of all aspects of that upgrade tasks. Documented information of upgrade path and ...

In continuation to the SQL Server 2005 - adhoc script to perform backup, restore and integrity checks/optimization jobs without Database Maintenance plans?  blog and scripts by Ola Hallengren, I presume they are very useful for the DBAs who are looking to handle these important tasks in hand with the scripts and not to leave to the GUI or API ...

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 ...

As a DBA you might be aware that since SQL Server 2005 database maintenace plans have given flexibility in deploying the workflow of tasks required to make sure that your database is optimized, is regularly backed up, and is free of inconsistencies in addition to the avoiding the fragmentation on indexes with optimization tasks. This may be ...

Have you ever wondered about flushing databases? Well not quite possible to flush it straight away and not a best practice too on the live server, so what it is about and you need to know about transactions state when they occur. Say when the changes occur in a database the changes are formed as transactions that are held in buffer pool ...

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You may be aware that Database Mirroring is an important High Availability [HA] option available within SQL Server 2005 version. Having this HA option within your Sharepoint farm where the databases are associated to failover, then you must note few issues that might crop up in this case. Also you should be cautious when you have reporting ...

When do you need data partitioning? The data you see in relational database may need such a strategy if the volume is huge, for instance the data to store event-log information having the schema such as:  [Id]  INT (make this primary key clustered), [Unit_Id]  UNIQUEIDENTIFIER, [EventType_Id]   ...

Good news for the Development DBAs to have a fature of searching for a particular object within the SQL database. The newest feature to SQL Server 2008 version will be 'object search'! Until now even for me I used to refer to ThisArticle to search for a specific object within the SQL Server database, also this you can easily enter the full ...

Until last month I was not  aware about Volume Shadow Copy and what is the relation between that service & SQL Server services, so here I would like to give the information in this regard that will discuss SQL Server connection issues that you may encounter when you use Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) enabled backup applications. SQL ...