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SQL Server performance monitoring requirement and specifications, heard about baseline and benchmarking?

Published 19 December 7 6:6 AM | SSQA.net

How do you define the terms "Performance Monitoring"? What is your baseline & benchmarks? Have you ever used PERFMON (SYSMON) & PROFILER for serious performance issues within your SQL Server environment? The answer may be not 'yes'...

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SQL Server 2008 Data Compression, what it is - how does it work?

Published 3 December 7 7:54 AM | SSQA.net

As you know data compression facility is added onto the SQL Server 2008 version, though this is not a new feature and I would call it as an enhanced feature in SQL Server. This subject of data compression has already been introduced in SQL Server 2005...

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Determining the required capacity of an I/O subsystem before deploying the database

Published 17 September 7 8:49 AM | SSQA.net

It is a good practice to determine the required capacity for a database application before it is deployed on the Production environment. As it speaks the I/O system is "most" important to the performance of SQL Server, in the event of any performance...

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SQL Server 2005 using Cryptography & Encryption what they are for?

Published 13 September 7 7:46 AM | SSQA.net

Since the inception of SQL Server 2005 data encryption and cryptography functionality has elevated to a new level, this wasn't the case until SQL 2000 version. The overall security improvements within SQL 2005 is mainly with 'certficate' authentication...

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/3GB /PAE and AWE blurb what is it you hear within your environment?

Published 25 July 7 9:6 AM | SSQA.net

You might have come across a situation to have a better understanding on what /3GB or /PAE switch means that are referred in documentations and forums you go on. I will try my best to give you the notes what I have understood so far in this regard. From...

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SQL Server 2005 Security best practices on the Administrative tasks

Published 6 July 7 11:8 AM | SSQA.net

You have various references available on the web about things to take care on the security management for SQL Server, in addition to the SQL Server 2005 Books Online . Features and options that are new or defaults that are changed for SQL Server 2005...

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