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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 ...

What will be the main challenge for a DBA/User to manage a large Data Warehouse (DW) environment, size does matter and also think about downtime you need to deploy whenever any patches are required. Before that you need to be perfect or well-versed with Data partitioning & Data lifecycle within that DW environment.  Also buidling up ...

Quest Software has lined up 2 events  where you can learn more about consolidation and virtualisation for your SQL Server environment. SQL Server Technology DayTuesday, 24 June 20089 a.m. - 5 p.m. (lunch included)Maidenhead, Berkshire Join Douglas Chrystall, Chief Technology Officer for Quest’s SQL Server Solutions, and Iain Kick, ...

Granting permissions to relevant account is a required criteria within the SQL Server databases management, for this even Reporting Services is not exceptional. As per the configuration by default the users connect to the report server by using their own Windows domain credentials and integrated security. TO change this criteria you can also ...

Choosing a better plan to reduce outage to your database application is a beginner to provide High Availability to your application, irrespective to database or server. You may be aware that SQL Server 2005 version provides the database mirroring which is an advantage to avoid the costs and pre-requisite for Clustering, as it comes ...

In general it is not a best practice to perform SHRINK database operation on a production server, atleast regularly! Sometimes it may be compulsory to keep them sized in order to ensure the disk storage is not compromised for any sudden changes to databases ETL processes, coming to the point by design the DBCC SHRINKFILE operation is a ...

The following context is the one I have received from SQL Server Magazine that talks about a good backup tool in the market, study on:  Third-Party Tool Enhances SQL Server Backup and RecoveryMicrosoft SQL Server’s own backup and restore facilities are probably some of the most robust in the industry. So why consider purchasing a third-party ...

Security - a major ingredient for every Enterprise to avoid the adversaries attempt to invade your customers’ networks and access their servers—to bring them down, infect them with viruses, or steal information about customers or employees, every day! The recent release of Windows Server 2008 from  Microsoft will help them address these ...

The message on subject is self-explanatory where your disk subsystem is referring to SQL Server that it is unable to cope up the demand.   Having AUTOGROW option enabled on a SQL Server database is a common setup that allows SQL Server automatically expands the database when additional space is required. Internally within ...

Performance - one word does it all!  You are aware that during the Performance Tuning exercise there are few quick wins within the SQL Server Relational Database Engine such as table statistics for data and indexes. When it comes to Analysis Services (BI) database then no difference as one of the greatest enhancements in Analysis ...