Within the IT organisations it has been a huge expansion of increased challenges with regard to number of office locations and keep up the data consistent across the Enterprise. Travelling around the globe is a olden day myth and now even by sitting at your office or home you can obtain the required...
DMV - has got very special place for DBAs since the inception of SQL Server 2005. In this case one of the thme is very important to find out the index statistics within your database, such as sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats statement. Recently one of the user complained about running DMVs on a specific...
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Have you looked at the Activity Monitor screen within the Managment Studio? I feel this is somewhat surprise features included from February CTP (or was it there before?). This is more useful to the DBAs to have a look at resource activity and locking/blocking. There is no doubt that Ken Henderson's...
You all might know this SQL-HomePage would take you to the SQL Server webpages on Microsoft and now with recent launch 2008 wave another new site created specific to SQL Server 2008, which is SQL-Server-2008 . Nothing major difference here as the first link would also take you through but with few clickes...
As blogged here before Virtual Labs are very handy for the new users and existing professionals to test out new features without disturbing their own platform. In this scenario Microsoft events are helping the users by providing access to their virtual platform for BI & Relational Databases that...
How many SQL Server licenses you need to fix the number of CPUs on the server? The answer it depends on the number! Well having hyper-threading (i.e. multiple threads execute on a single physical CPU appearing as 2 logical CPUs) and dual-core technology (i.e. a single CPU socket that has more than 1...
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How many SQL Server licenses you need to fix the number of CPUs on the server? The answer it depends on the number! Well having hyper-threading (i.e. multiple threads execute on a single physical CPU appearing as 2 logical CPUs) and dual-core technology (i.e. a single CPU socket that has more than 1...
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Its nearly 90 days from SQL Server 2008 November CTP and as per the CTP release cycle (90 days) the next instalment of SQL 2008 may be ready by end of this month. I feel that may be the last one before the RTM or as per the communication from Microsoft product development team feedback, but looking at...
You all know that it is a best practice to use the schema qualified tables or views for the better management and performance (sometimes). As the Best Practices Analyzer tool which will be a part of SQL engine from 2008 version onwards confirms that this rule doesn’t check schema qualification on temporary...
Use the following TSQL SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('Collation') Collation, SERVERPROPERTY('Edition') Edition, SERVERPROPERTY('Engine Edition') EngineEdition, SERVERPROPERTY('InstanceName') InstanceName, SERVERPROPERTY('IsClustered') IsClustered, SERVERPROPERTY('IsFullTextInstalled'...