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Designing Tables for Audit Data in SQL Server

My company is just starting to look at adding functionality to retain historical data for key tables and columns for auditing purposes in many of our SQL Server databases. I have seen some of your recent tips related to triggers (Forcing Trigger Firing Order in SQL Server and Trigger Alternatives in SQL Server - OUTPUT Clause). Based on using triggers or a similar technology, what is the best way to store the historical data?

2008-04-15

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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.

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2008-04-14 (first published: )

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Analyze and Correct a large SQL Server MSDB Database

It has come to my attention that some of our MSDB databases are getting what I would consider large for a system database. Some of our MSDB databases are over 2 GB which is a little perplexing because I know we do not create any user defined objects in that database. Can you give me some insight into the issue? I know we have this issue with both SQL Server 2000 and 2005 instances.

2008-04-14

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