http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Articles tagged SQL Server 7, 2000, Replication, Administering posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)Andy continues writing about replication, this week discussing the many options available when creating a snapshot publication. As we noted on his last article, this one may take longer than usual to load due the large number of images but we think the readability of having it all one page is worth while. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/snapshotreplicationforthebeginner/886/2004/01/27http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/snapshotreplicationforthebeginner/886/We've asked Andy to put together some articles that tackle replication from a beginner perspective, a tutorial type approach PLUS comments on what you should or should not do. This week he covers the steps needed to set up a server for replication. More images than usual so the page may take a little longer to load, but we think worthwhile so that you can see every step along the way. Let us know what you think. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/gettingreadytoreplicate/883/2004/01/20http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/gettingreadytoreplicate/883/A monster book at 980 pages, it's written in 'how-to' format and has a ton of good material. Andy gave it the once over for us and reports back - see what he thinks! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Installation/reviewofsql2000fastanswers/959/2003/04/18http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Installation/reviewofsql2000fastanswers/959/Andy had a semi-disaster similar to the one he wrote about last year. Interesting to see the kinds of problems that happen to other people. This article raises some interesting points that are outside the scope of basic disaster recovery, looking at how/when to move databases to a different server and how to reduce the server load dynamically. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/anotherdisasteralmost/881/2003/01/14http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/anotherdisasteralmost/881/Andy takes a look at the new book on DMO and likes what he sees - "great book for beginner and intermediate DMO users!". We've been supporters of DMO for a while and we're glad to see a new book on the subject. Read the review, add your comments, buy the book! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/reviewofrealworldsqldmo/842/2002/11/19http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/reviewofrealworldsqldmo/842/All of do us regular backups. Ok, all of us SHOULD do regular backups. In this article Andy comments on why having a backup plan isn't enough and why you should look at some other options for when you need to fix data errors. This really speaks to the goal of minimizing down time using low tech, readily available solutions. If you're not interested yet, we'll add this - one of the alternatives he suggests is Microsoft Access! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/alternativestosqlbackups/828/2002/10/28http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/alternativestosqlbackups/828/Back in April Steve Jones wrote up a disaster at work. Andy had one this week and wrote up the story too. Copy cat! Pretty soon everyone will be having a disaster and writing a story about it! Give these guys credit for letting you see what happens when it ALL goes bad. Disaster recovery is hard to sell and hard to do, reading the article might give you an idea that will save you some time and/or data one day. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/disasterintherealworld2/747/2002/07/31http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/disasterintherealworld2/747/Andy says Windows Authentication "is bad". What? That's not what Microsoft says! Heck, that's not even what we say! Everyone knows NT authentication is the way to go. Then again, when was the last time Andy wrote an article that wasn't worth reading?! Read the article, rate it and add a comment - and automatically be entered in a drawing for a copy of SQL Server 2000 Performance Tuning donated by Microsoft Press. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/thecaseforsqlloginspart1/714/2002/06/25http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/thecaseforsqlloginspart1/714/Middle tier applications often use a single database management system (DBMS) to store data, which can expose scaling limitations as the number of user requests increases. Caching, a technique used to increase application performance by copying data and then using the copied data in place of the original data, can dramatically increase the throughput (the number of application requests serviceable per unit time) and scalability of middle tier applications. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/619/2002/03/08http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/619/This week Andy takes a look at a new product from Red-Gate that gives you even more options than you get with their SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare tools - now you can build your own. Add the features you always wanted. Build automated processes instead of using the GUI. It's an interesting product - read the review and then maybe even enter the contest to win a free copy. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/reviewofsqlcomparisonandsynchronizationtoolkit/580/2002/01/16http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/reviewofsqlcomparisonandsynchronizationtoolkit/580/