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...
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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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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Another FAQ within newsgroups & forums that will SQL Server Clustering supports load balancing? It is quite common for a newbie to say and look at Clustering configuration such as Active-Active where you have n+1 nodes as a serving instances, the only difference between Active-Passive configuration...
SQL Server Performance Tuning, sounds familiar on a DBA perspective and though it sounds like an easy words but when you start analyzing the problem it is far deeper inside. When you refer to the web resources such as forums/newsgroups then a common question will be fulfill of improving performance on...
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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 version which is usage of VARDECIMAL with having...
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Have you ever asked this question about how do I identify the queries that worth tuning? The simple answer it is neither easy or hard to obtain such information if you have managed your SQL Server by deploying industry best practices (wherever possible). Then it comes what kind of practice you should...
A common scenario in SQL Server environment that often application users complained about slow performance and same time you observe high CPU usage/spikes on the SQL Server instance, so better to follow the methods from HighCPU-whyitis blog and still you have not seen no sign of resolution to the problem...
Here comes another Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) on the forums and Frequently Posted Blog (FPB) here about high cpu issues on the SQL Server 2000 instances. Looking at high cpu spiks and performace issues is a common problem in all SQL Server installations, handling this issue within SQL Server 2005...
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