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Reporting Services Makes Server Support Easier

Reporting Services is one of the most widely used subsystems in SQL Server and there have been some very creative solutions invented by DBAs around the world. New author Carolyn Richardson is one of those, bringing us a implementation that tracks uptime and disk space for her SQL Servers

An Introduction to Dynamic Management Views and Functions in SQL Serve

The purpose of this article is to introduce you to Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) and Dynamic Management Functions (DMFs) at a high level; in later articles, I will drill down into how specific DMVs and DMFs can be used to help you performance tune your servers and databases.

Open Source SQL DDL Scripting Tool

Keeping track of your DDL is something that is critical and some sort of VCS system should be used. However pulling out your scripts from SQL Server sometimes entails a bit more than the standard scripting. New author Richard Sutherland brings us an open source project that can help you get this done. Complete with code.

New Isolation Levels Available in SQL Server 2005

One of the more mysterious features of SQL Server is isolation levels. Whenever a statement is executed, or a data modification is made, it runs under the influence of an isolation level. Traditionally, SQL Server has supported four isolation levels. In SQL Server 2005, two new isolation levels are introduced.

Preparing the SQL Server 2005 Clustering Infrastructure

Before you even begin building a SQL Server 2005 cluster, you must ensure that your network infrastructure is in place. Here's a checklist of everything that is required before you begin installing a SQL Server 2005 cluster.

Should You Upgrade Your Current SQL Server Cluster to a SQL Server 200

If your organization is like many organizations, it may have some older version SQL Server clusters in production. If so, at some point you will have to make a choice about how to upgrade them to SQL Server 2005.

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Using BACKUP and RESTORE in SQL Server

This article covers the basics of full backup backups and restores in SQL Server. The examples are from SQL Server 2005 however it applies to SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005. This is a very basic article covering full database backups, database restores and the simple and full recovery models.

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