Diagnosing and Troubleshooting Slow Partitioned Merge Processes
Learn how to achieve scalable, high-performance merge replication applications. (White Paper)
2004-12-15
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Articles
Review - MSSQLRecovery
Destroyed your database? Corrupted files? What about corrupted records? What do you do in SQL Server? MSSQLRecovery is a product that can help you with this and more. Read this review by Dale Elizabeth Corey and see if this product might be something you can use.
2004-12-14
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Easy Package Configuration
One of the age old problems in DTS is moving packages between your development, test and production environments. Typically a series of manual edits needs to be done to all the packages to make sure that all the connection objects are pointing to the correct physical servers. This is time consuming and gives rise to the possibility of human error, particularly if the solution incorporates many DTS packages. Many companies have provided their own custom solutions for managing this problem but these are still workarounds for a problem that is inherently DTS's.
2004-12-14
1,761 reads
Review - SQLPackager
Deploying a SQL Server database with your software can be tricky. It's easy to forget something that you added to development when trying to script out or detach and copy a database. And there's the whole problem of integrating the installation or upgrade into your main installation routine. New author Mark Vermeulen takes a look at Red Gate's SQLPackager, designed to make the job of deploying a database much easier.
2004-12-13
5,505 reads
Securing your databases: Improving protection with a proactive securit
The key to effective security is embracing it as an ongoing process rather than a one time event. This document examines how database security can be enhanced with a proactive security lifecycle approach.
2004-12-13
1,564 reads
Microsoft Wants to Hear From You
A short survey from Microsoft looking for feedback from users in order to try and improve the application development process. If you build applications with MS technolgies, especially SQL Server, take a moment and respond.
2004-12-10
2,819 reads
Four of a Kind - Backup Software Shootout Part 2
SQL Server has a rock solid backup and restore routine. However, it is not the most efficient way of handling the backups and restores. Neither in terms of time or space required. A number of software vendors have developed their own additions to SQL Server that accelerate or compress the backups (or both). Wesley Brown has taken four of these products into his environment and run some comparisons. Read about large databases in part 2 of this series.
2004-12-09
7,292 reads
Boost Your Performance - Bad Index Detection
SQL Server depends heavily on good indexing to perform well. The optimizer requires relevant and intelligent indexing in order to do its job well. Author Andre Vigneau brings us a script that he uses to detect possible index problems in the database design as well as a number of hints to ensure that your database is performing optimally.
2004-12-08
16,247 reads
Four of a Kind - Backup Software Shootout
SQL Server has a rock solid backup and restore routine. However, it is not the most efficient way of handling the backups and restores. Neither in terms of time or space required. A number of software vendors have developed their own additions to SQL Server that accelerate or compress the backups (or both). New Author Wesley Brown has taken four of these products into his environment and run some comparisons. Read part one of his review.
2004-12-07
10,776 reads
What's SQLServerCental.com All About
With some recent hubub and questions, Steve Jones decided to spend a few moments welcoming everyone to the community and give some background on what this site is all about.
2004-12-07
4,193 reads
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Changing the AG Listener
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