SQLServerCentral - Guest Columnist: Jay Dave

XML Notepad with SSMS

XML is becoming more pervasive in all of MIcrosoft's product, including SQL Server. Jay Dave brings us a short look at how one of their lesser known tools, the XML Notepad, can be used by SQL Server DBAs. Read more...

By Jay Dave 2007/07/26 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: product reviews

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A Look at Database Mirroring

One of the more interesting new technologies in SQL Server 2005 is database mirroring, allowing you to implement high availability on a database with commodity hardware. Jay Dave brings us a nice description of this technology. Read more...

By Jay Dave 2007/07/17 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: high availability (ha)

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Microsoft DPM

This is a product that we have not heard much about, but Microsoft has a Data Protection Manager, designed to help ensure you can recover your databases by centralizing your backup files. Author Jay Dave brings us a short overview on this product. Read more...

By Jay Dave 2007/05/23 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: product reviews

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Starting SQL Server in Minimal Configuration

Have you ever misconfigured your SQL Server's memory and been unable to start it? That happened to new author Jay Dave, who has the Data Center edition of SQL Server 2000 with a whopping 36GB of RAM. Here's how to get your instance back up and running. Read more...

By Jay Dave 2007/05/10 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: administration

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