The other major database vendors have been making investments by purchasing database related companies, but what has Microsoft done?

Sun Invests, IBM Invests, MS ??

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial - iPod

The other major database vendors have been making investments by purchasing database related companies, but what has Microsoft done?

Behind the Curtain

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

Commentary on the database related news of the past week. SQL Server 2008 Certification, deep inside SQL Server and the Library of Congress.

Bloated

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

What is going on with all this production data? Steve Jones talks about the need to manage data growth and is it really worth the resources.

PASS 2008 - Article

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Register for the 2008 PASS Summit in November today and save! Use our code when you register and attend our opening night reception.

Starting SQL Server in Minimal Configuration

by Jay Dave

SQLServerCentral.com

Administration

Have you ever misconfigured your SQL Server's memory and been unable to start it? That happened to new author Jay Dave, who has the Data Center edition of SQL Server 2000 with a whopping 36GB of RAM. Here's how to get your instance back up and running.

Analyze and Correct a large SQL Server MSDB Database

by Additional Articles

MSSQLTips.com

Administration

It has come to my attention that some of our MSDB databases are getting what I would consider large for a system database. Some of our MSDB databases are over 2 GB which is a little perplexing because I know we do not create any user defined objects in that database. Can you give me some insight into the issue? I know we have this issue with both SQL Server 2000 and 2005 instances.