To cut the long story short, during a recent implementation of Cumulative Update 6 and 7 on a particular 'application domain' server we have had major application issues due to a mix up of application code & these SQL cumulative update fixes. Actually this server was not under our support...
Since the evolution of SQL Server 2000 version the backup and restore methods have been enhanced for better performance to provide a better option for the DBA, as usual the backup and restore operations are an integral part of the Analysis Services infrastructure. The same methods/process has been completely...
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Backup and restore practices are at the core of today's best business continuity plans. While backup and restore provides many benefits, it simultaneously presents a variety of challenges with lost data, the time it takes to restore data, and the costs of restoring lost data. This web seminar will...
The following pages were recently modified, rather than posting each as a blog post I have included them here: Source: Knowledge Base Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise X64 Edition Notification Contents: New and All Modifications FIX: A gradual increase in memory consumption for the USERSTORE_TOKENPERM...
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 the reasons). But one thing is sure that SQL Server...
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Interesting question: how can we know the difference between a native backup and backup taken by third party tool? Say you have started newly in a enterprise wide platform and your task is to find out what methods of BACKUP and RESTORE are followed to take care of data which is a prime task for every...
If you have been using the database diagrams from SQL Server 2000 onwards and when it is upgraded to SQL 2005 you might get the following error: TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio ------------------------------ Database diagram support objects cannot be installed because this database does...
Say which is better, having multiple transaction log backups files or single transaction log backup file during a recovery point of time. In my experience both of them doesn't make any difference and if you are performing further backup to tape then ensure to test them by restoring on to the standby...
What if I told you to take your latest production backup, restore it on a different machine and try using the database? Are you comfortable with that task? Do you think it will work? When was the last time you tested your backups? Denis Gobo has listed a best practice blogpost that you need to deploy...
Source: Knowledge Base Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition & SQL Server 2005 Enterprise X64 Edition Notification Contents: New and All Modifications FIX: Error message when you run the CHECKPOINT statement after you restore a database that has a read-only user-defined filegroup in...