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SQL Server Technical Rollup July 2008 - Important & Interested links for you

Published 7 July 8 2:51 AM | SSQA.net

As you may be aware all the Technical information roll-up on MSDN & Technet is sent out in email format, in this regard I wanted to share the important and interested links for you on SQL Server arena. Downloads Source Code Analyzer for SQL Injection...

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SQL Server 2005 and Disk drive allocation unit size to 64K - any benefit or performance?

Published 28 April 8 3:1 AM | SSQA.net

You may be aware that or seen within your Database platform about slower disk performance than expect having multiple disks in Windows Server 2003 environment when you use a hardware-based redundant array of independent disks (RAID) or a software-based...

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SQL Server Database Mirroring and Sharepoint server - gotchas and problem solutions

Published 18 March 8 6:23 AM | SSQA.net

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...

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Rename a SQL Server instance, a little catch

Published 14 December 7 4:4 AM | SSQA.net

Can I rename an instance of SQL Server after I have already installed it on the computer? Simple answer is Yes and you can change the name of an instance as long as the server is not clustered. There is a little catch between 2000 and 2005 version, by...

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MSDN labs - Developing a SQL Mobile Application with Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005

Published 11 December 7 10:11 AM | SSQA.net

Sometime ago I have blogged about MSDN labs- SQL Server Virtual Labs - fully featured virtual environment for testing! and I recommend and encourage all of my users to use Virtual labs and webcasts - use them for a better practice on product . Similar...

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How to find whether that service pack file is a 32 bit or 64 bit?

Published 1 November 7 6:44 AM | SSQA.net

Whenever a service pack is released it will be available for 32-bit and 64-bit that also includes for SQL Express 2005 edition too, as it was for MSDE earlier. Since last year (I think) Microsoft Development team has adopted a standard in naming schema...

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Setting database compatibility to SQL 2000 on a SQL Server 2005 instance?

Published 30 August 7 5:2 AM | SSQA.net

No doubt that as compare to previous version the current SQL Server 2005 provides more new language constructs and primitives for the T-SQL language than can be utilized. Still there are many out there not entirely ready to upgrade from SQL Server 2000...

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