Server Farm Reporting - Part 2
Building on his first article examining management of a large server farm, Mark Tierney brings us part 2 in which he examines the data gathering process.
Case Study: Denver International Airport Keeps Operations/IT (and Pass
AlarmPoint Enterprise automates alerting process and protects airport's massive information and communications network from business-impacting outages.
Compatibility of SQL Server 2005 and 2000 coexisting
When installing a SQL Server 2005 instance on your SQL 2000 machine, there are upgrade and compability issues such as linked servers, multi-server administration and log shipping.
Using Non-Standard Port for SQL Server
Greg Larsen examines setting up SQL Server to listen on a different port number than 1433.
What Data is in SQL Server's Memory?
SQL Server memory is primarily used to store data (buffer) and query plans (cache). In this article I'll show how much memory is allocated to the data buffer (or RAM). I'll explain how to determine what tables and indexes are in the buffer memory of your server.
A Simple Approach to SQL Server 2005 Encryption
SQL Server 2005 has added encryption capabilities to the platform, much to the delight of many DBAs. However setting up encryption can be confusing and difficult for most DBAs. New author Mike Good brings us a perspective from someone who is brand new to this set of features and has spent time working through the functions and documenting them for the rest of us.
Data Warehousing: Ensuring Data Integrity with End-to-End and Statisti
This article provides an architecture and process framework to ensure data quality in a data warehousing environment.
SQLCLR Security and Designing for Reuse
SQL Server's CREATE ASSEMBLY statement lets you catalog code with one of three predefined security buckets. But under the covers, there are actually two distinct security models at play: Code Access Security and Host Protection, and you need to understand both.
Server Farm Reporting - Part 1
Managing a large number of servers can be quite the challenge for many DBAs and it seems to get worse each year as more servers are added without an increase in staffing. New author Mark Tierney brings us the first part of a series on the framework he's built to help manage his servers.
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Upgrading SQL Server Containers on the Laptop
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