I've been looking at this new feature of SQL Server 2008 in order to demo it to customers, and I have to say it's pretty cool ! Along with Resource Governor and compression, it's one of my favourite new features and a good reason to consider an upgrade. Performance Studio builds on the concept...
Recently I have been involved to carry over an assesment of server utilization on the SQL estate farm (nearly 150+) instances, as it stands it is not an easy job to obtain the results when you have no influence on accessing required information on a shared platform. So in order to get the results quickly...
I attended a SQL Server User Group meeting earlier this year and heard a presentation about favourite DMV's. Mentioned in the discussion was sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats and that got me thinking about indexing strategies. I have been involved in performance troubleshooting databases that have used...
I've had one or two requests recently to set up the Performance Dashboard reports on SQL Server so I've created this blog post to step through the process. Firstly, the Performance Dashboard was created to allow customers and support engineers to monitor the general performance characteristics...
Not alone with SQL Server you would be able to identify the root cause of a performance issue or to monitor any kind of activity. As you may be aware SYSMON (PERFMON) and PROFILER will help to some extent of finding offending processes on the SQL Server for further fine tuning for queries or tasks. Still...
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IDERA's tools are helpful for the Database Management in specific to DBAs and in this fashion they are coming up with new tool called, SQL Admin toolset, check the following: NEW! SQL admin toolset: Incredibly useful tools for SQL Server people 24 essential desktop tools for monitoring, troubleshooting...
Another tool within BI platform to use when you have the huge farm of Analysis Services data warehousing & mining database setup at your end. So the provision of BI within SQL Server 2005 is a complete enterprise-ready and scalable data warehouse platform you can set, with the features and functionality...
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One of the client referred about the error during the execution of Upgrade Advisor: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding. Initial thoughts lead to checking the SQL Server timeout setting which has been left with default value...
Do you want to lockdown your SQL Server environment? Hope you dont'! Though it is not a good practice or recommendation to perform, but will atleast prove how far your SQL Server environment has securit compliance as per the industry best practices. Before we go to know how you can lockdown or know...
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If it is a first time you are deploying the SQL Server 2005 on a SAN, then there are few things you need to be considered that will be raised by installations that are either deploying SQL Server for the first time or are upgrading to SAN from direct attach storage. The important factors such as virtualization...
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