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Database Maintenance Plans
Database Maintenance Plans for SQL Server 2000 Database Maintenance Plans offer the following features in SQL Server 2000: 1. Backing …Continue reading »
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Reorganize data and index pages
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Statistics Update
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How to update statistics for a VLDB
Statistics are something that the SQL Optimizer depends on to generate a plan. The more outdated your statistics are, greater …Continue reading »
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The need for a sound Backup Strategy
Backup strategy needs to be designed in such a manner that it causes minimum amount of downtime in case during …Continue reading »
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Now SQL Server 2008 has BPA too
This has been an ask from the community for a long time now. We just launched SQL Server 2008 R2 …Continue reading »
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SQL performance gotchas for Distributed Queries
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CU10 is a must for all instances where mirroring is being used
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T-SQL Tuesday: Common SQL Server myths – Series I–Setup and Services
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T-SQL Tuesday #13 – What the Business Says Is Not What the Business Wants
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T-SQL Tuesday #19: Disasters and Recovery
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Invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #20 – T-SQL Best Practices
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T-SQL Tuesday #20 Wrap-up and a few smiles
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T-SQL Tuesday #21: It’s easy to be lazy
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Awesomesauce: Deprecated Features usages
SQLServer:Deprecated Features is a performance object that is available since SQL Server 2005. The number of deprecated features have definitely …Continue reading »
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I am not sure how many of us pay attention to BOL notes under certain topics. I must admit that I have overlooked quite a few useful notes once in a while. But while working on a Linked Server...
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If you happen to use Database Mirroring on SQL Server 2005, then Cumulative Update 10 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 is a must for your instances. There are 2 database mirroring related fixes in...
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As part of the Microsoft CSS group, we get to deal with a lot of production as well as non-production related issues. While we are troubleshooting such issues, we also end of dispelling some or the...
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View ArticleT-SQL Tuesday #19: Disasters and Recovery
This month’s revolving blog party a.k.a. T-SQL Tuesday is being hosted by Allen Kin (blog | twitter). The topic for this month is Disasters and Recovery. The creation of fail-safe mechanisms is...
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