I'm sure that by now you are aware about the list of new features within SQL Server 2008 and recently I have had couple of emails from newbie DBA/users in SQL Server asking about any reference they can get on these new features, with a video. In this regard Microsoft learning has provided right to...
This is first time Microsoft has divided the conference into 2 sections, Developer & IT-PRO. Why Attend Tech-ed? IT Pros, you'll gain new solutions and new ideas for being more productive from sessions, product assessments, and interaction with experts and peers. Gain real-world learning from...
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DBAs look after an organization's most important asset – its data – and yet their contribution to an organization is all too often misunderstood. Now it's time for DBAs to finally get the recognition they deserve with some new community awards, sponsored by Red Gate. If you're the kind of...
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...
As a DBA you might be aware that since SQL Server 2005 database maintenace plans have given flexibility in deploying the workflow of tasks required to make sure that your database is optimized, is regularly backed up, and is free of inconsistencies in addition to the avoiding the fragmentation on indexes...
Have you looked at the Activity Monitor screen within the Managment Studio? I feel this is somewhat surprise features included from February CTP (or was it there before?). This is more useful to the DBAs to have a look at resource activity and locking/blocking. There is no doubt that Ken Henderson's...
Bottlenecks aka locking & blocking is a quite common scenario within a RDBMS platform, that too SQL Server is not an exception at all. With an access to shared resources causes bottlenecks and demands on shared resources cause poor response time and must be identified and tuned. Few root causes for...
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The message on subject is self-explanatory where your disk subsystem is referring to SQL Server that it is unable to cope up the demand. Having AUTOGROW option enabled on a SQL Server database is a common setup that allows SQL Server automatically expands the database when additional space is required...
The 11th annual DevWeek conference, the UK's biggest dedicated event for software developers, features a choice of 16 all-day workshops and over 70 breakouts sessions on a wide range of topics, including .NET Framework 3.5, Silverlight, WCF, Visual Studio 2008, ASP.NET AJAX, SQL Server 2008, LINQ...
When it comes to performance, for a DBA indexes are the first one to come to mind in order to fine tune the tasks on the database. In this series we have already covered this huge topic of indexing and how best you can make use of Dynamic Management Views within SQL Server 2005 version that was lacking...