One of the biggest threats in IT industry & Database world is unprecedented attacks aka most commonly termed as 'SQL injection'. There is no doubt that biggest database vendors, one of them as Microsoft so far providing recommendations regarding security-related configuration settings since...
I have had annoying moment when I'm trying to restore the sample database AdventureWorks on the test database server that consists SQL Server 2008 CTP6 and previous to this I have tried bits and pieces on FILESTREAM, but it seems CTP6 has changed it all the way. So then the day is saved (Thanks to...
I'm not going to shoot any questions to Microsoft about RTM release for SQL Server 2008, as it was made it clear from The Data Platform Insider blog post as: Extract: "Over the coming months, customers and partners can look forward to significant product milestones for SQL Server. Microsoft...
Post Subject Post Views Msg 18456, Level 14, State 1, Server <ServerName>, Line 1 Login failed for user '<Name>' 4,845 SQL Server 2005 & 2000 - Index optimization best practices 4,425 SQL Server 2005 - Ad hoc updates to system catalogs are "allowed" 4,290 Use Import...
Have you ever wondered about flushing databases? Well not quite possible to flush it straight away and not a best practice too on the live server, so what it is about and you need to know about transactions state when they occur. Say when the changes occur in a database the changes are formed as transactions...
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No doubt that the blog subject will be a most wanted requirement on their databases, that is most responsible for a SQL Server database then arguably the most critical task that you absolutely MUST get right is your database backup procedures. Where the backup sequence comes the database RECOVERY model...
Ok here is the hot news for SQL 2005 users!!! From the Are you ready for SP3 post here, it has been officially announced the SP3 for SQL Server 2005 will be available in CY2008 (calender year 2008) that means before 31st December 2008! More from this DataInsider blog post....( read more )
Here is another candidate of 7 within Cumulative Update service for SQL Server 2005 SP2. SQL Server Release Services team has announced (yesterday) that another instalment of Cumulative Update ( series here ) for SQL Server 2005 on Service Pack 2, it is not easy decision for User Community to apply with...
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Simple, short and crisp - I would like to say about TSQL enhancements within SQL Server 2008. You may already aware about what's new and how best you can take advantage within your code, most of the Developers would agree about IntelliSense functionality that supports (gives you advantage on) frequently...
Fragmentation is dearest friend of database when you need to deal with Performance, so by using the DBCC statements and other methods here you can deal the database level fragmentation, what about the physical level fragmentation? So what is the best way forward to fix the data file fragmentation in...
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