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SQL Server Clustering - what is the difference between Active/Passive and Active/Active Clustering, which is good for better performance?

Published 18 March 8 4:20 AM | SSQA.net

First part of question is a pure newbie FAQ to know about, and the simple answer would be it is one of the Clustering type you can adopt within your SQL Server environment. To cover on newbie aspect both Active/Passive & Active/Active configuration...

Filed under: sql server, performance, security, clustering, 2005, partition, monitoring, active/passive, parallel execution, performance monitoring, active/active, scalability

SQL Server consolidation and virtualization - hot topic in the industry

Published 12 February 8 5:35 AM | SSQA.net

I have no doubt in stating that Virtualization has become hot topic in the industry now a days, that is leading to consolidate your Database platform using available technologies. The main interest in getting this up is that virtualization can lower overall...

Filed under: sql server, microsoft, security, environment, sa, 2000, 2005, virtual server, vmware, operating system, windows server, benefit, costing

FIX: Error message when you jump to another report that uses a shared data source in SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services: "One or more data sources is missing credentials"

Published 23 December 7 1:59 PM | SSQA.net

The following pages were recently modified. Source: Knowledge Base Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Notification Contents: New, All Modifications and Delete FIX: Error message when you jump to another report that uses a shared data...

Filed under: sql server, security, kba, reporting services, 2005, data source, credentials

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...

Filed under: sql server, performance, microsoft, blogs, security, 2008, ctp, data capture, 2005, compress, data compression

Best Practices: Upgrading Cluster SQL Server from 2000 to 2005 version - are you worried?

Published 16 November 7 4:53 AM | SSQA.net

I know it sounds easy to upgrade a SQL Server Cluster environment from 2000 to 2005 version, as easy it mentioned within the Books Online for SQL Server 2005. When I have performed for the first time, my first thought was (do we need that or take out...

Filed under: sql server, restore, high availability, backup, security, upgrade, best practices, cluster, 2000, 2005, detach, attach, data files, logins

Database Mirroring sys.sp_dbmmonitorupdate stored procedure fails with error "Incorrect syntax near '-'"

Published 12 November 7 3:23 AM | SSQA.net

Recently got stuck with the stored procedure sys.sp_dbmmonitorupdate which is used to monitor the database mirroring session. As usual you could do using the GUI tool, but sometimes using TSQL methods is good enough to see what is happening on your system...

Filed under: sql server, security, bug, database mirroring, error log, 2005, stored procedure, monitoring, hyphen, connect site

Replication security information you need to know with SQL Server 2008

Published 15 August 7 6:0 AM | SSQA.net

I was able to install SQL 2008 July CTP as a Virtual Image, tried to test few replication tasks to know what has been changed since last versions. At this time I would like to use the replication scripts from SQL 2000 version to see what it takes, nothing...

Filed under: sql server, security, replication, 2008, environment, 2000, 2005, enhancement