Brian Mason has a great checklist available in the forums if you are tasked with doing this. http://www.myitforum.com/forums/m_129606/mpage_1/key_sql%252C2005%252Cchecklist/tm.htm#155415 Thanks to John Nelson for bringing this to my attention by posting it to the SMS/ConfigMgr email discussion list ...
As a DBA you might be aware that since SQL Server 2005 database maintenace plans have given flexibility in deploying the workflow of tasks required to make sure that your database is optimized, is regularly backed up, and is free of inconsistencies in addition to the avoiding the fragmentation on indexes...
Have you ever wondered about flushing databases? Well not quite possible to flush it straight away and not a best practice too on the live server, so what it is about and you need to know about transactions state when they occur. Say when the changes occur in a database the changes are formed as transactions...
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You may be aware that Database Mirroring is an important High Availability [HA] option available within SQL Server 2005 version. Having this HA option within your Sharepoint farm where the databases are associated to failover, then you must note few issues that might crop up in this case. Also you should...
Good news for the Development DBAs to have a fature of searching for a particular object within the SQL database. The newest feature to SQL Server 2008 version will be 'object search'! Until now even for me I used to refer to ThisArticle to search for a specific object within the SQL Server database...
When do you need data partitioning? The data you see in relational database may need such a strategy if the volume is huge, for instance the data to store event-log information having the schema such as: [Id] INT (make this primary key clustered), [Unit_Id] UNIQUEIDENTIFIER, [EventType_Id] UNIQUEIDENTIFIER...
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Until last month I was not aware about Volume Shadow Copy and what is the relation between that service & SQL Server services, so here I would like to give the information in this regard that will discuss SQL Server connection issues that you may encounter when you use Volume Shadow Copy Service...
Upgrading a SQL Server database should be straight-forward, when you haven't got much of constraints on the application code. In this regard we have blogged previously such as UpgrageTags posts. Here in this post I would like to go with few FAQs that are related to Upgrade process & procedure...
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You may be aware default 4 SQL Server system databases master, model, msdb & tempdb are created automatically when the SQL Server is installed. Those databases files can be located under default directory assuming C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Data and when you look into this...
The following pages were recently modified, rather than posting each as a blog post I have included them here: Source: Knowledge Base Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise X64 Edition Notification Contents: New and All Modifications FIX: A gradual increase in memory consumption for the USERSTORE_TOKENPERM...