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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Administration Cookbook - eBook and paperback Book - quick answers to common problems #sql #book

This is something big in my life to announce, it gives immensive pleasure and happiness to share about my first book (hard paper) and eBook release, titled : Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Administration Cookbook is released and out now. share my experience...

SQL Server in Virtual platform - keep a close watch on physical server's configuration

Server consolidation & virtualization is a hot topic and also it is one of the biggest concerns for many DBAs is scalability/performance when it comes to virtualization. At this point,performance for virtual machines can be close to, if not the same...

SQL Server: Monitor and Manage Database Maintenance issues - DBCC, backup and spotlight on tempdb and Transaction log backup performance

The subject line of this post is a common factor that every DBA might have (once in lifetime). Performance Monitoring is a big subject when it comes to practice, many factors include such as what to monitor, how often more from here ...

RML Utilities (READTRACE/OSTRESS) now supports SQL Server 2008

In continuation to SQL Server - Precision Performance techniques using RML Utilities and SQL Server troubleshooting tools PSSDiag, SQLDiag, SQLNexus, RML Utilities and ReadTrace: which one to choose? posts here it will be a wonderful news for DBAs to...

SQL Server multiple instances and resource utilization - best practices

A newbie or FAQ within Forums and Newsgroups that having multiple instances and how best to set the resources on the server such as memory, CPU etc. Should you configure each of the instances to use specific portions of the available Operating System...

SQL Server 2005 and Disk drive allocation unit size to 64K - any benefit or performance?

You may be aware that or seen within your Database platform about slower disk performance than expect having multiple disks in Windows Server 2003 environment when you use a hardware-based redundant array of independent disks (RAID) or a software-based...

SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition - make data available while creating indexes on large tables!

Though it is not a best practice to perform a CREATE INDEX on large tables during the online hours where you have number of users accessing the metadata of SQL Server database. Within SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition you can perform ONLINE indexes operation...

SQL Server 2005 Index Optimization Best Practices

Do you have a maintenance window to perform database reindexing? Have you ever performed full set of re-organize and re-index process on a bigger database? Do you know there are best practices to deploy in this regard? On large database systems, with...