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Backup Basics Part 3: General Tips for a Backup Strategy

Knowing how to configure backup applications and select backup media is half the battle of designing a successful backup strategy. The other half is choosing how and when to back up the specific pieces of data that are stored on your servers, share points, and workstations. In this final article of his series on backup basics for new technicians and administrators, Ryan Faas offers some suggestions to help you make these important decisions.

2006-08-11

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SQLServerCentral Article

SQL Server 2005 Installation Adventures

In bringing the SQLServerCentral.com training center online, one of the challenges Andy Warren faced was developing an automated way to install software. Here we see some of the gotchas and difficulties that you might encounter as well with unattended installations of SQL Server.

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2006-08-10

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Monitoring SQL Servers Availability

How many SQL Server instances are you running? Do you ever have customers calling you stating that their application is not working, then when you research the problem you find that the instance that supports their application is unavailable? Have you ever had someone mistakenly shutdown the SQL Agent service and forget to restart it, causing a number of scheduled jobs to not be run? One of the tasks of a DBA is to monitor the availability of all SQL Server instances and services.

2006-08-10

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A Report to Display and Edit User 'Rights'

Reporting Services is quickly becoming one of the most popular parts of SQL Server and new author Jonathan Spink brings us an interesting use of this subsystem. He explains how Reporting Services can do more than just display data; it can also provide an easy interactive way to make changes without the overhead of a complete .NET application.

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2006-08-09

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Tuning .NET - Part One

As server-side .NET development becomes more prevalent, Application Performance Management tools are becoming available to fine-tune .NET applications. And, as in the past, it seems that the ability to build new and more sophisticated applications always stays ahead of the ability to manage them.

2006-08-09

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SQLServerCentral Article

Adding In HTML Links

While the strength of SQL Server is not in string manipulation, it can be very handy when backing a web site to be able to automatically include links for some of your content. New author Grey Wilson brings us an easy technique to easily deliver results to developers with URLs embedded inside.

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2006-08-08

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