During the end of March 2009 I have presented a session " Upgrading To SQL Server 2005 & 2008: Notes & Best Practices" in SQLBits IV conference at Manchester. The session covered a brief tour on SQL Server Upgrade options, methodology...
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...
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...
