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The following pages were recently modified. Source: Knowledge BaseProduct: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition, SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition & SQL Server 2005 Enterprise  X64EditionNotification Contents: New Changes to a SQL Server Agent job are lost when the job corresponds to a subplan in a maintenance plan that you ...

This is a very tricky question and hard to stick to 1 or few solutions as answer, it depends! Overall the say is if  there isn’t any resource contention (from your pre-installation testing & analysis) and there is enough of each resource to go around, then there is usually no reason to set any restrictions on the server ...

Usage of Temporary tables or variables is a common scenario in SQL Server world, since SQL Server 2005 usage of TEMPDB references to the blog posts here: http://sqlserver-qa.net/blogs/tools/archive/2007/04/05/sql-server-index-optimization-best-practices.aspx, ...

It is an universal truth in the database field that due to the fragmentation and page split the performance will be affected even for a simple [SELECT <ColumnName> from....] type of query. So what you need to check or take action in terms of DBA role, on the execution of queries ensure that columns that are included in the WHERE ...

What kind of database maintenance operations you should be doing when you are DBA? You should have better understanding on the terms in managing the Database platform at your end, without proper information it is very hard to say you are managing your platform effectively. Think about DBCC checks, backups and database maintenance tasks and list ...

How can you copy the database maintenance plans from one SQL Server instance to another SQL Server instance using 2005 version.  Using the Database Maintenance plans has been increased since SQL Server 2005 is released, also lot more once Microsoft fixed the issues with Service Pack2 for SQL 2005. In general you can take help of ...

Common question and ranting about Database maintenance plans in the forums, in this case I always suggest to use another job using TSQL to drop those older backup files. Andrew Kelly, SQL MVP has contributed an excellent script sample that should get you started in the right direction.  You basically need to name each file according to ...

Here is another common error you will get to see with Database Maintenance plan in SQL Server 2005, though most of it has been resolved with Service Pack 2 and hotfix but still you need to take care few things. Error: Value of 'DD/MM/YYYYHH:MM:SS' is not valid for 'Value'. 'Value' should be between 'MinDate' and 'MaxDate' Parameter name: ...

If you take into account of most Frequently Asked Questions in any SQL community forums, you will get to see problems against database maintenance plans by the users. Personally I don't like them to use (by default) and professionally always depend (suggest) upon my own scripts to manage the backup & database re-org processes. So coming to ...

Database Mail Fails For SQL Server Agent Jobs / Maintenace plans - Why ? As you are aware Database Maintenance plans are better in SQL 2005 and more better now after Service Pack 2 release with a cumulative hotfix release. Still there are few problems with database mail when the user is intended to use for alerting on the job status or any ...