The following pages were recently modified. Source: Knowledge Base Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition, SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition & SQL Server 2005 Enterprise X64 Edition Notification Contents: New SQL Server 2005 installers do not update an instance of the SQL Server service...
I've had one or two requests recently to set up the Performance Dashboard reports on SQL Server so I've created this blog post to step through the process. Firstly, the Performance Dashboard was created to allow customers and support engineers to monitor the general performance characteristics...
I was working with one of the user project to monitor the Performance Audit of their SQL Server estate. One SQL instance among the SQL farm is very important to their day-to-day business and cannot sustain even 5 minutes of downtime which is termed as 24/7 kind of application. During the troubleshooting...
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A new Level 300 support webcast has been scheduled for Monday the 9th of June, 10:00 AM Pacific Time. The summary of the session is as follows: This Support WebCast focuses on how to plan, implement, and administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 failover cluster on Windows Server 2008. This session provides...
Locking is a mechanism used by the Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine to synchronize access by multiple users to the same piece of data at the same time. Before a transaction acquires a dependency on the current state of a piece of data, such as by reading or modifying the data, it must protect itself...
SQL Server 2005 collects statistical information about indexes and column data stored in the database. These statistics are used by the SQL Server query optimizer to choose the most efficient plan for retrieving or updating data. Good statistics allow the optimizer to accurately assess the cost of different...
SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition introduced support for the use of Windows 2000 Address Windowing Extensions (AWE) to address 8GB of memory on Windows 2000 Advanced Server and 32GB of memory on Windows 2000 Datacentre. With AWE, SQL Server can reserve memory not in use by other applications and the...
The following pages were recently modified. Source: Knowledge Base Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise X64 Edition & SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition Notification Contents: New and All Modifications FIX: An ongoing MS DTC transaction is orphaned in SQL Server 2005 http://support.microsoft...
The following pages were recently modified. Source: Knowledge Base Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition & SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition Notification Contents: New and Major Modifications A query that references a nondeterministic user-defined function may run slower in SQL Server...