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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When do you need data partitioning? The data you see in relational database may need such a strategy if the volume is huge, for instance the data to store event-log information having the schema such as: [Id] INT (make this primary key clustered), [Unit_Id] UNIQUEIDENTIFIER, [EventType_Id] UNIQUEIDENTIFIER...
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Until last month I was not aware about Volume Shadow Copy and what is the relation between that service & SQL Server services, so here I would like to give the information in this regard that will discuss SQL Server connection issues that you may encounter when you use Volume Shadow Copy Service...
Here is another common error you will get to see with Database Maintenance plan in SQL Server 2005, though most of it has been resolved with Service Pack 2 and hotfix but still you need to take care few things. Error: Value of 'DD/MM/YYYYHH:MM:SS' is not valid for 'Value'. 'Value'...
If you take into account of most Frequently Asked Questions in any SQL community forums, you will get to see problems against database maintenance plans by the users. Personally I don't like them to use (by default) and professionally always depend (suggest) upon my own scripts to manage the backup...
Do you know you can try restore a corrupted database backup using simple clause within RESTORE statement. You may be aware that SQL 2005 version can perform an optional computation a backup checksum on the backup stream; if page-checksum or torn-page information is present on a given page, when backing...
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 use the Playback Capture Wizard (PCW) to capture a backup of a database that is larger than 2 terabytes...
Source: Knowledge Base Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition Notification Contents: New and Major Modifications Error message when you try to restore a database by using SQL Server Management Studio in SQL Server 2005 after you use the Backup tool: "Restore failed for Server '<ServerName>'...
Snapshot backups are introduced in SQL Server 2005 version that uses: The underlying backup technology creates an instantaneous copy of the data that is being backed up. The instantaneous copying is typically accomplished by splitting a mirrored set of disks or by creating a copy of a disk block when...