Security - a major ingredient for every Enterprise to avoid the adversaries attempt to invade your customers’ networks and access their servers—to bring them down, infect them with viruses, or steal information about customers or employees, every day! The recent release of Windows Server 2008 from 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 An additional resource group that contains no resources is created after you install a second...
We have most of our database systems on 64-bit environment, but one of the application user asked the question what is the advantage of a 64-bit environment in relation to SQL Server application. I would say with the evolution of SQL Server 2005 it has opened many more differentiation between 32- and...
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Continuing on the MAX WORKER THREADS topic from ThisBlog I have been asked about method of calculating the amount of system resources that will be used when the setting is increased to 500 from 255 (default). Well, as one of the best practices you must test the implications and usage in hiking such a...
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We have been going through a load-performance exercise for an application that will have more than 5000 concurrent connections at one time. Going by books and expeirence by default the Max Worker Threads setting is 255, which means that up to 255 worker threads are allowed to be created. Most of the...
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 Error message when an application connects to SQL Server on a server that is running Windows...
When configuring log shipping on a highly transactional environment (with SQL Clustering setup), we were hit by above error. All the Logins and their privileges are intact within the primary and standby servers along with Local server policies & group policies. Initial thought of the error brings...
I have had problem when installing SQL Server 2005 on one of the 64-bit server, the error was: There was an unexpected failure during the setup wizard. You may review the setup logs and/or click the help button for more information. So as per the message I have looked in to the specified directory for...
SQL Server Compact edition is best used for replication purpose within the enterprise wide with a small footprint in-process database engine that allows developers to build robust applications for Windows Desktops and Mobile Devices. This download contains the files for SQL Server Compact 3.5 and Microsoft...
Performance tuning exercise involves using SYSMON for the server based tasks, also I have seen users referring that MEMORY is at peak level by referring to Task Manager on the server. Not always depend upon the task manager, for optimum information better to rely upon SYSMON counters. In this scenario...