In continuing with our series of tips on Best Practices for SQL Server I'm turning my sights on Maintenance. Specifically in this tip we will be discussing Index maintenance: when, if, why, and how are questions that will be addressed.
2009-10-09
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In this tip I will show you an easy way to identify the scheduled Reporting Services report, so you can run that scheduled job to reproduce the reports and delivery of the reports.
2009-10-08
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In today's database reporting market, most vendor applications use a proprietary format for representing the definition of a report. In addition, vendors that provide a report execution environment usually only support their own design tools. For customers, this means that reports cannot be easily moved between different reporting implementations and that there are few options for choosing new tools that work with their existing execution environments.
2009-10-08
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Marcin Policht continues his discussion of implementing Reporting Services on SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, focusing in particular on security-related topics. This article continues this subject by describing other technologies that assist with data protection, their corresponding configuration settings, and a few authentication and authorization caveat
2009-10-07
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Because installing SQL Server is so easy it is tempting to cut corners, fail to plan properly and blindly accept default options without considering the alternatives.
2009-10-06
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Create a linked server on the fly in this tip.
2009-10-06
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With SQL Server 2005 DMVs, we can easily find query performance statistics. Every DBA has a favorite script to find query performance stats. I also have one. But, are all the queries captured by the DMVs? In this tip I will walk through capturing some of this data and show what is capture and what is not captured by the DMVs.
2009-10-05
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DBA's can use the Transfer Error Messages and Transfer Master Stored Procedures tasks to transfer error messages and stored procedures between difference SQL Server instances.
2009-10-05
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The final part of the series will examine full text catalogs and indexing, database collation, service broker considerations, encryption and high availability.
2009-10-02
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This white paper complements the existing documentation on planning, implementation, and administration of a SQL Server 2008 failover cluster, which can be found in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Books Online. There are links to relevant existing content throughout the paper, which is intended primarily for a technical audience. This white paper covers failover cluster architecture and concepts for Windows Server (2003 and 2008) and SQL Server 2008; installation of a SQL Server 2008 failover cluster; upgrades and updates to SQL Server 2008 failover clustering; and maintenance and administration of SQL Server 2008.
2009-10-02
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By HeyMo0sh
In the realm of software development and content creation, the deployment pipeline serves as...
By Vinay Thakur
I wrote about TempDB Internals and understand that Tempdb plays very important role on...
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While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers