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Archives: February 2013
Managing Critical Server Lists with Remote Desktop Connection Manager
Most Server Administrators, whether Database Administrators or not, are quite familiar with the Remote Desktop Connection (a.k.a. RDP) tool, which is formerly known as the Microsoft Terminal Services Connector accessible from the command mstsc in Run, or from a Command Prompt. What most do not realise, however, is that there… Read more
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Posted in The Database Hive for SQL Server DBAs on 25 February 2013
Executive Visibility for DBAs: Use SQL 2008 Row+Page Compression, or SQL 2005 (SP2+) vardecimal Conversion, to Reduce Space ($/GB SAN) & Logical Reads
One of the great features available since SQL 2008 is Row and/or Page Compression. However, even for those of you on SQL 2005 in production who might be there for a little while: there’s a decent feature you can take advantage of too that is very expensive to do in SQL 2008.… Read more
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Posted in The Database Hive for SQL Server DBAs on 8 February 2013