Tuning SQL Server for performance is in many ways like constructing a house. You must find a suitable location with rich soil, build a solid foundation to support two or three levels, install the electrical and plumbing, finish the walls for painting and decorating, and finally conduct ongoing maintenance.
2005-07-19
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When Database Administrators manage multiple databases on multiple servers, it is difficult to keep track of and monitor the used percentage of data portion on every database. Though SQL Server has the capability of auto growth whenever the data portion reaches 100%, it is always advisable to increase the database size manually when it comes to VLDB. This article examines monitoring the percentage used on the data portion of every database and alerting the DBA using threshold settings. This article has been written for SQL Server 2000 server.
2005-07-18
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One of the best ways to reduce the load on your server and increase application responsiveness is to reduce the number of "round trips" your application makes. This article by Andy Warren shows you a few ways to increase your performance by reducing round trips.
2005-07-15 (first published: 2002-01-24)
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Every organization both maintains and uses reference data sets within its enterprise. And in many of these organizations, there are standards about the definition and use of that reference data, although sometimes those standards are at best silently understood instead of specifically documented. Yet even in the best governed environment, that reference data is bound to eventually be abused, either through value set perturbation or extended usage expectations.
2005-07-15
2,478 reads
How many times have you run out of space in a database? What about on a file system? Andy Warren has had this happen a few times, especially when large imports take place. He brings us an article that describes some of the precautions he has taken to prevent this from happening.
2005-07-14
11,206 reads
They're here, ready and waiting for the community to dig in and enjoy. Read a little about them and how you can get your own SQLServerCentral.com blog.
2005-07-14
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Microsoft provides the most comprehensive integrated business intelligence, data mining, analysis and reporting solution with its state of the art Microsoft SQL Server Analysis services and Microsoft SQL Server reporting services. With the modern architecture design based on XML web services, SQL Server Reporting Services provides highly flexible, scalable, customizable and high performance reporting solution in a cost effective way. This article is a developer's introduction to SQL server reporting services, its functionality and how it can be used to provide state of the art reporting solutions.
2005-07-14
2,764 reads
One of the more controversial new features in SQL Server 2005 is the inclusion of the Common Language Runtime (CLR) inside the server. Whether you agree this is a good idea or not, the very knowledgable Chris Hedgate brings us the first article in a series looking at how the CLR fits into your database server.
2005-07-13
17,255 reads
Microsoft describes its new, free SQL Server 2005 Express Manager (XM) as a "lightweight" database management tool built on top of the .NET Framework 2.0. Better yet, not only can you use XM to manage SQL Server 2005 Developer and Express Edition databases on local and remote computers, you can also use it with SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE 2000) databases. In this article, Rick Dobson shows you what XM offers DBAs.
2005-07-13
3,330 reads
Users call and complain and by the time you get to the server, everything looks fine. Even running Profiler sometimes doesn't capture the information. Author Roy Carlson found a solution, a script that you can give to users to dump whatever information you need to an Excel file.
2005-07-12
8,710 reads
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